What we know about US Abrams tanks arriving in Ukraine ‘next week’
Al JazeeraLong-awaited M1 Abrams tanks are to arrive in Ukraine next week and come at a crucial time for Kyiv’s forces. United States President Joe Biden has announced that the first US-made Abrams tanks will be delivered to Ukraine next week, a crucial delivery at a time when Ukrainian forces are engaged in brutal fighting on the front lines with Russia after months of a slow-moving counteroffensive. Al Jazeera’s defence analyst Alex Gatopoulos has said that the latest-generation main battle tanks, such as the Abrams and the German-made Leopard 2 tanks, are vital for Ukraine to punch holes in Russian defensive lines. NEW: #Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the #Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western #Zaporizhia Oblast are currently penetrating, although ISW is not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through this… pic.twitter.com/ALjaUhkFb0 — ISW September 22, 2023 What the package did not include: ATACMS The new military aid package announced by Biden also includes air defence missiles, ammunition for HIMARS precision rocket launchers, anti-tank weapons and artillery rounds.