After the first German Leopard main battle tanks, the British-supplied Challenger tanks have also arrived in Ukraine. They are to be used in a counter-offensive by Ukraine in the spring. Britain announced in January that it would give Ukraine 14 Challenger 2s. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov thanked Britain for the delivery. “These fantastic machines will soon begin their combat missions,” he announced on Twitter.
On Monday evening, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed that Ukraine had received 18 modern Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks from Germany. They followed 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles that were already in the country. According to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, the next step will be to deliver older Leopard 1A5 tanks.
According to Moscow, Ukraine is using US missiles of the GLSDB type. Such a precision missile, which has a range of 150 kilometers, was shot down by the Russian air defenses, the Defense Ministry in Moscow announced on Tuesday.
According to information from Kiev, Ukraine fended off several Russian drone attacks on Tuesday night. 14 of the 15 Iranian “Kamikaze drones” of the type Shahed-136 were shot down. The head of the Kiev presidential office, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of “terror against civilian infrastructure” after the new drone attacks. Ukrainian forces in Kiev also reported that more than 60 ground attacks had been repelled within 24 hours. Accordingly, the Russians tried primarily to take Bakhmut.
