

The United States has been wary of deploying its difficult-to-maintain M1 Abrams tanks, but ultimately promised 31 to persuade Germany to pledge its more easily operated German-built Leopards. missile systems that have helped turn the tide of the war.

Ukraine's allies have already provided billions of dollars in military aid, including sophisticated U.S. Maintaining Kyiv's drumbeat of requests, Zelenskiy said he had spoken to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and asked for long-range missiles and aircraft. "We have to form such a 'tank fist', such a 'fist of freedom'." The numbers in tank support," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Wednesday. Speed in training our forces, speed in supplying tanks to Ukraine.

Ukraine has been asking for hundreds of modern tanks in the hope of using them to break Russian defensive lines and recapture occupied territory in the south and east.
