20.01.2023 - 20:59 [ CNN ]

‚They have us over a barrel‘: Inside the US and German standoff over sending tanks to Ukraine

In recent days, German officials have indicated they won‘t send their Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow any other country with the German-made tanks in their inventory to do so, unless the US also agrees to send its M1 Abrams tanks to Kyiv — something the Pentagon has said for months it has no intention of doing given the logistical costs of maintaining them.