A Challenger 2 Main Battle of the British Army patrolling outside Basra, Iraq, in 2003. File photo: defenceimagery.mod.uk
In his interview with the Donbas.Realii project of the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty, Ukrainian Ambassador to Great Britain Vadym Prystaiko said regarding the Challenger 2 tanks that the UK “promised 14 tanks, and as a result of President Zelenskyy’s visit, it was agreed to double that number.”
Zelenskyy visited the UK on 8 February. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace previously said the British tank would arrive in Ukraine “before summer.”
Other takeaways from Vadym Prystayko’s interview:
- Britain offers to increase the number of Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in the UK by 2.5 times;
- Ukraine will receive 33 units of the 155mm AS-90 armored self-propelled guns from Britain;
- the British are ready to find even the weapons they don’t have, often in other countries;
- agreements are already reached as to the “systems that will allow us to hit the entire occupied territory.”
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Tags: AS-90, Challenger 2, UK
