![]() ![]() “Europe stopped suffering from ‘Russian disease’: I see & hear nothing, I’m afraid and stay silent,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Twitter on Thursday. ![]() Germany has pledged to send 14 Leopards to Ukraine. A Leopard 2 tank during a training exercise in Ostenholz in northern Germany in October. Nevertheless, the move to create a new “tank coalition,” as some officials called it, has been widely welcomed in Ukraine. There’s a lot of Ukraine and 20, 30, 40 tanks does not go that far,” said Ronald Ti, an expert in military logistics at King’s College, London. Conventional military theory holds that an attacking force has to have a 3 to 1 ratio. “There have been about 1,300 Russian tank losses … so the actual numbers of new tanks in a military sense are not that significant. ![]() The problem, analysts say, is the numbers of tanks announced so far are just not enough. Much of the war has been conducted with exchanges of artillery - but as Ukraine seeks to win back land, tanks are increasingly needed. ![]() Ukraine said its defenses intercepted 47 of the missiles. However, it still has the effect of torpedoing Germany’s final objection and has got things moving.”įollowing Wednesday's news, Russia carried out new bombardment across Ukraine early Thursday, with what the Ukrainian armed forces said was a wave of 55 missiles fired from fighter jets, ships and drones killing two civilians, one in Kyiv and one in Kherson, destroying scores of buildings and energy facilities. is selling this as a long-term capability development, as opposed to something which will enable the current defense or offensive in the spring. ![]()
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