The Biden administration is planning to announce a decision to send Abrams M-1 tanks to Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.
Putting aside resistance from the Pentagon and elsewhere, the Biden administration is planning to announce a decision to send Abrams M-1 tanks to Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.
But given the sophistication, complexity and firepower of the tanks, it could be months or even more than a year before they reach the battlefield and Ukrainian fighters are trained to use the equipment. He emphasized he was not announcing a decision to supply the tanks “at this time,” an official position repeated at the White House and State Department.
Germany may be softening its position, born of decades of an official post-World War II position of pacifism. And Poland, for example, has Leopard tanks it would like to ship to Ukraine, but has sought permission from Germany to do so.
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