The New Voice of Ukraine – via Yahoo News Jan 27, 2023
According to the outlet, the initiative was put forward by the chairman of the parliamentary defense select committee, Tobias Ellwood.
The politician believes that Western governments have demonstrated a lack of strategic foresight in their steps to support Ukraine, and this must now be rectified.
Ellwood noted that the decision to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Western tanks was the right one, but organizing supply chains for the different parts and ammunition may be unsustainable.
“It’s just not feasible in the long term,” the Conservative MP explained, noting that an arms factory in Poland could help make the Ukrainian army more independent.
“Tanks today, yes. But we need a strategy to make sure Ukraine can defend itself […] so they can procure their own equipment to their own specification, probably NATO standard, and have a constantly protected supply chain.”
The U.S. announced that it would transferring a number of Abrams M1 main battle tanks to Ukraine on Jan. 25.
In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will also receive German Leopard 2 tanks from a variety of countries, as well as British Challenger 2 tanks.
As of today, 73 modern Western tanks have been confirmed for delivery to Ukraine:
- 14 Challenger 2s from the UK;
- 31 Abrams from the United States;
- 14 Leopard 2s from Germany;
- 14 Leopard 2s from Poland.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine was also to receive 90 modernized T-72s.
Another 50 Leopard 2 tanks, according to unconfirmed reports, may be jointly supplied to Ukraine by Portugal, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, and Denmark. Spain may also supply 20 to 50 units of the heavily armored vehicles, and Sweden is considering the transfer of an unspecified number of Stridsvagn 122 tanks – their local equivalent of the Leopard 2.
France is also considering further supplying Ukraine with a number of its Leclerc tanks.
Originally posted at The New Voice of Ukraine
Since America forced to us to blow the gas pipelines and now manufacturing in Europe is basically over, what UK weapons is he proposing they make? Longbows?
if the government does have this money to waste
why dont they feed and house their own electorate ?
I expect Poland are quite keen in this. They provoked WW2 and seem to relish being on the front lines of WW3. Strangely enough the Poles don’t really mind that Ukrainians massacred thousands of civilians during WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia.
Nice people the Poles but mad as hatters
Better buckle up…. ’cause blowback on ZOGUK is gonna be EPIC!!!
Don’t worry it’s only Turbo-Schmuck Tobias Ellwood. Probably the biggest Kompromatted nonce in Westminster.
He’ll say anything.
Because he has to.
Poland should be nuked into oblivion, Poles are the worst vermin of Europe, they always have been entitled like little bi*ches, they started WWII and now they want reparations from Germany. If it wasnt for Pooland and their neocon rats, Russia and Germany would be in good and prosperous mutually beneficial relationship. Russia has resources, Germany has superb industry so Europe could have prosperous time and cheap goods. Well (((someone))) doesn’t like that idea and uses dumb Polacks and their hatred for both Russians and Germans. How convenient.
@anton
Agree 100%!
But dont forget that DUMB Polacks are joined at the hip to THICK Brits!
What a combo!!🤣
“Seemingly oblivious”? I would say the setting up of an armament factory in order to prolong a war is standard run-of-the-mill war profiteering.
@Anton If Stalin had not been a doublecrosser, can you imagine where the world could have been. German technology and Russian raw materials. We might have had a colony on Mars by now.
wombat–isn’t Germany building a lot of BMW, Merc, VW and Audi?
the poles will harvest what they sowed !
poles never understand that british MPs
are never their real friends . they only
want use the stupid poles . those poles
are always united with jewUSA/UK+israel
to prevent that germany/france/italy/spain
go together with russia . this would be the
end of USA+ maybe israel .
all RUSSIANS MUST UNDERSTAND
ANTISEMITISM + THAT THEY ARE IN
JEWS HAND :