Western tanks will overmatch Russias on the battlefield

European Security Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute, Ed Arnold said the supply of the American M1 Abrams, the British Challenger 2 and the German-made Leopard 2 could be key in pushing Russian forces out of Ukraines occupied territory.

You need to see a tank as a piece in the jigsaw, which now is almost the last piece in the jigsaw that Ukraine needs to do the offensive, Arnold said on Thursday (January 26).

The German and U.S. moves definitively scrapped one of the last taboos in Western support for Ukraine: providing arms that have a mainly offensive rather than defensive purpose. The West has been reluctant to send heavy offensive weapons for fear of provoking nuclear power Russia.

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