(Seoul = Yonhap News) Local daily The Times reported on the 16th (local time) that there are voices of concern within the UK over Britain’s decision to support Ukraine with its main battle tank, the Challenger 2, for the first time among Western countries. I did.
Britain’s Army Chief of Staff, Patrick Sanders, has reportedly warned Britain’s support for Challenger 2 tanks in Ukraine will undermine Britain’s own capabilities.
“Donating tanks to Ukraine would create a gap in British military stocks,” Sanders said in a statement. .
“Ukraine needs our tanks and guns now and we know they will put them to good use,” he said, “but it cannot be denied that handing over these forces will temporarily weaken our armed forces.”
In response, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said he was reconsidering the decision to reduce the number of tanks in the Army’s fleet along with support for Ukrainian tanks.
The British government has been promoting a plan to reduce the number of tanks it owns, replacing only 148 of the 227 Challenger 2 tanks in the Army with the upgraded Challenger 3.
Earlier, in a statement released after a phone call between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the 14th, the British Prime Minister’s Office said, “We plan to send 14 Challenger 2s and about 30 AS 90 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine in the coming weeks.”
It was announced that Britain would become the first Western country to provide main battle tank support to Ukraine. Let’s see it in the video.
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