The Danish authorities will supply Ukraine with a number of disused German-made Leopard battle tanks as part of a joint shipment with other international powers, according to Danish public broadcaster DR.
According to the information provided by this media, the Leopard 1A5 tanks have become obsolete and are no longer part of the Danish Armed Forces, which means that some of them will have to be overhauled.
It is expected that the joint dispatch of several foreign forces – planned for a few months from now – will provide Ukraine with more than a hundred Leopard battle tanks, a supply unblocked last January by Germany, which has a veto option for third countries to send these tanks.
According to DR, these same tanks are the ones that the Danish authorities allocated in 1994 to the Bosnian war to participate in the so-called Bollenbank operation. The Leopard 1A5s are not armored against bombing or explosive attacks.
The supply of Western tanks has been the main demand of the Ukrainian authorities over the past months until Germany finally broke the deadlock. The United States also confirmed weeks ago the shipment of more than thirty Abrams battle tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
