Poland considers Ukraine's request to donate 240 Leopard 2 tanks

Poland considers Ukraine's request to donate 240 Leopard 2 tanks.

January 9, 2023. author of Author Poetra

The Polish government is considering Kyiv's request to donate its more 240 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

Polish diplomats told US media recently.

It is said that it is possible that all 240 German-made Leopard 2 tanks will be transferred to Ukraine if Poland can quickly receive replacements.

According to The Wall Street Journal, early in the war Poland had provided Ukraine with more than 240 modernized Soviet-made tanks.

“They are really considering giving anything just to help Ukraine,” said a Czech official closely involved in aiding Western arms shipments to Ukraine commenting on the Polish official's remarks.

It added that the speed of its delivery to Ukraine depended on how quickly Poland received the replacement tanks it had ordered from South Korea and the US.

It is said that Berlin has approved the planned donation of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

"Now the problem is only time, when," continued the Czech official.

Poland has more than 1,000 tanks including various variants of the Leopard tank. One of them is 249 units of Leopard 2.

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DANGER!! Relations between Turkey and Greece are getting hotter and have...

Relations between Turkey and Greece are getting hotter and have 'dragged' other countries.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected Turkey's claim to sovereignty of the Greek islands at the start of an official visit to Athens,

Tuesday (1/11/2022).

Speaking to Greek newspaper Ta Nea ahead of an official meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Scholz said it was "unacceptable" for a NATO country to question the sovereignty of its fellow members.

He also criticized the "more or less veiled military threats" to Greece made repeatedly by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior officials in recent months.

Greece and Turkey, both members of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance, have clashed for years over maritime borders and energy exploration rights in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Seas.

In an interview with French outlet Le Point, also published Thursday, Mitsotakis said the language used in the "indisputably escalating rhetoric" in Turkey was "unprecedented".

While it acknowledges that Erdogan's aggressiveness could be linked to a difficult re-election campaign next year, Mitsotakis noted that Athens cannot ignore that these remarks confirm its aggressive and expansionist stance towards Greece.

"President Erdogan ... is now saying he can attack my country at night," he said.

Meanwhile, on his first visit to Greece as chancellor, Scholz urged the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue and based on international law.

On the other hand, Erdogan has recently accused Greece of occupying the Aegean islands whose status was settled in treaties adopted after World War I.

In response, Athens accused Turkey of carrying out hundreds of illegal military strikes on the islands.

Last month, the United States said that Greece's sovereignty was not in doubt, after Ankara lodged a protest over the deployment of Greek armored vehicles on the islands of Lesbos and Samos.

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