![]() ![]() Images published by the ministry on Twitter showed two T-14 Armatas in southern Russia at a facility "associated with pre-deployment activity" for Ukraine. ![]() Russia has likely been considering whether to send a first wave of its new main battle tanks to Ukraine, the MoD said on January 19. With EU nations’ stocks of weapons severely depleted, countries have been turning to firms like OIP.The T-14 Armata tank, once labeled by a senior British army official as "the most revolutionary tank in a decade," is being reluctantly accepted by Russian commanders in Ukraine, the British defense ministry (MoD) said on Wednesday. ![]() The clash underlined a predicament faced by western governments trying to find weapons for Ukraine after more than a year of intense warfare arms they discarded as obsolete are now in high demand, and often owned by private companies. Versluys at the time denied that the Belgian government had approached him. Leopards belonging to IOP were at the centre of a public spat this year when the Belgian defence minister, Ludivine Dedonder, said her country had considered buying the tanks but accused the firm of trying to make a “huge profit” from the sale. The government spokesperson said the 30 tanks being prepared by Rheinmetall were “on top” of the 110 tanks already promised. This summer Germany promised Ukraine 110 Leopard 1 tanks as part of a €2.7bn aid package, of which only 10 have so far been delivered. A German government spokesperson on Wednesday said the tanks were part of the military aid package that the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, announced at the end of the Nato summit in Vilnius in July. ![]()
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