The United States and Germany announced plans to send dozens of advanced battle tanks to Ukraine, which was hailed by Kyiv as a potential turning point in its fight to repel Russia¡¯s invasion. But Moscow denounced the move as an ¡°extremely dangerous¡± step.
Saying Ukraine now has a ¡°tank coalition,¡± Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the commitments and urged allies to provide large quantities of tanks quickly. ¡°The key now is speed and volumes. Speed in training our forces, speed in supplying tanks to Ukraine. The numbers in tank support,¡± he said in a nightly video address on Wednesday.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine¡¯s presidential administration, stressed in a post on the Telegram messaging app that the tank commitments so far were ¡°only the beginning. We need hundreds of tanks.¡±
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