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Originally published on ZeroHedge
Wrapping up a big Friday meeting of the Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany – a coalition of nations which coordinates weaponry to Ukraine – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the Pentagon is now expediting delivery of M1 Abrams to Kiev.
“We’ve also expedited our M1 Abrams timelines to supply Ukraine with more armored capability in the coming months, and the M1s that the Ukrainians will use for training will arrive here in Germany in the next few weeks,” Austin announced during a press conference.
This comes on the heels of reports from earlier in the day saying that 31 Abrams tanks are set to arrive in Germany soon, where an additional 10-week training program for Ukrainian operators will be held.
This means the tanks could finally reach the battlefield by Fall, according to reports. But given that Russia clearly has the upper-hand in the key Donetsk city of Bakhmut, how the situation will unfold by then is anything but certain.
Austin in his comments also pledged support to Kiev for as long as Ukraine is battling the Russian invasion, reviewing the major weapons systems supplied by 54 allied nations thus far:
.@SecDef: In just a few short months, the Contact Group has delivered more than 230 tanks, more than 1,550 armored vehicles & other equipment & munitions to support more than nine new armored brigades. pic.twitter.com/JEe9093061
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) April 21, 2023
Another major development announced at the end of the Contact Group meeting, the fourth to be held, is that Germany, Poland and Ukraine have signed an agreement to establish a repair hub for Leopard II tanks being used in Ukraine.
Ukraine has declared what it’s calling a “tank coalition” involving partner nations…
A “tank coalition” meeting was held.
I am grateful to my German and Polish colleagues, Boris #Pistorius and @mblaszczak, for their unwavering support for Ukraine.
Today, we signed the Letter of Intent for establishment of a Maintenance and Service Center in Poland for Leopard 2… pic.twitter.com/hrFrrUvN9m— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) April 21, 2023
Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius explained that “All parties agreed on how to finance such a hub, which costs around 150-200 million euros ($384 million) a year and could begin operations at the end of May.”
Doll’spram for Humvee and stroller for Leos!
Sounds like some damn socialist agenda. Next thing you know, they’ll be putting diapers on tanks.
The real deal news of that war is now that: Prigozin announced that from today at 12.00 PM local hour WAGNER PMC will NEVER TAKE PRISONERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was after he listen to a recorded ukronazi command to kill a wounded PMC fighter in Backmut. Now, that’s my taste ! I was after such message from the beginning……no, azovite, banderite, aiderite/mercerite garbage taken prisoner ! Execution on spot ! Only the regular ukroidiot army to benefit for that gratitude (hoping he will be cured from its brain emptiness soon). No, after a very quick calculations, there will be no less than around 50 nazi hitlertruppen denazified per day only in Backmut !!!!!!!
Reklam för T-sprit 1970
Byload of TNT make strollers to tankkillers
The real deal news of that war is now that: Prigozin announced that from today at 12.00 PM local hour WAGNER PMC will NEVER TAKE PRISONERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was after he listen to a recorded ukronazi command to kill a wounded PMC fighter in Backmut. Now, that’s my taste ! I was after such message from the beginning……no, azovite, banderite, aiderite/mercerite garbage taken prisoner ! Execution on spot ! Only the regular ukroidiot army to benefit for that gratitude. No, after a very quick calculations, there will be no less than around 50 nazi hitlertruppen denazified per day only in Backmut !!!!!!!
It appears that Ukraine is losing faster than the West anticipated.
Losing? Bobo, you still don’t understand, do you? The game has just begun. The delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine is just a small piece on the chessboard. You see, the West wants a war, and Putin is more than willing to oblige. This conflict will drag on for years, if not decades. And who will benefit? The military-industrial complex, of course. Jobs, profits, power. It’s a win-win situation for the elite. And you, my friend, are just a pawn in their game.
Yanks didn’t want to send Abrams at all, they only did it to make fools of Germans. I doubt any of these tanks will even reach frontlines.
That’s just the spark son
Folks, there is a new joke going around: „The Russian Army” – muahahahahahahhahahahaha
Shithead you are a joke: dumb, booooring, shitty gay joke, not particularly funny just lame
You are the joke you , mental midget , too dumb to realize it .
That’s great I want to see more Banderite cannon fodder getting cooked off extra crispy inside those cumbersome M-1 coffins.
They are Russian men too stupidass. No such a thing as Banderites. It is just slavic men under mind control
Yo soy Goth y tu?
Around 400 Tanks will be supplied said Putin. All of them will be pulverized or captured
@Xsayarsa
You obviously watched too much jewish propaganda TV. Jewstream Medias history lies. Adolf the devil, Adolfs socks, Adolf and the Wolve, Eva Braun’s evil Nazi eyes, The Tyranny of the Nazi Army, The Brown underwear of the SS Stormtroopers, Darkness over Europe – How the evil Nazis managed to get to Power blah blah blub..and all these obvious 24/7 propaganda nonsense the jews are spraying whole of Europe with since 70+ years ! You let that shit into your brain and now we see the results. You have become an idiot.
GPS-Guided Bombs Should’ve Been Ukraine’s Ace in the Hole.
Then, Russian Jamming Stepped In Joint Direct Attack Munitions, which rely on satellites for navigation, are repeatedly missing their targets.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a43591694/russian-jamming-gps-guided-bombs/
Everything East of Levanevskogo Street and North of Krainia Street is under Wagner control. That means Ukrainians only hold about 5% of Bakhmut city. Zelenskyy is using and losing Ukraine’s most battle hardened, well trained Ukrainian troops against a bunch of ex convict Wagner mercenaries, what a waste. He is throwing away any chance of a counter offensive.
The mistake from the start (intentionally?) that Russia is making in this conflict against the Nazi NATO puppet state called “Ukraine” is that it has not thrown out the current pro-Nazi regime in Kiev and installed a pro-Russian government that would end the so-called Western support and demand an end to the conflict and call for real negotiations… period.
Didn’t know the $ Lost so much value. 384$ worth about 175€!! .
In the USA, they are ready to connect Russian banks to SWIFT, if it will benefit the grain deal. Earlier, the UN reported that negotiations on the re-connection of Russian banks to the SWIFT system are already underway. hahahahah
ROFL good luck with that for starters that facility WILL NEVER BE OPERATIONAL as it will be destroyed as soon as it is built, secondly those tanks won’t make a difference at all and the Abrams no matter what version are outdated JUNK and will be destroyed before making ANY IMPACT and that is IF they get to the front lines before being taken out lol pitiful NAZIS RUN NAZI RUN as Russia and Wagner are coming for you all and the HANGING ROPES are ready and the FIRING SQUADS ARE READY TOO. =Z=
Each stroller for one Abrams!
They have desert camo, so probably used up tanks from the middle east wars.
It’s going to be a pleasure , watching these things being blown up on the various telegram channels.
And China is still too timid to openly arm Russia. Why are the Chinese so scared?
China plays the long game, always. They plan 100 years in the future, not 10 days in the future like the west.
Let’s see how this works out, so far US equipment has not impressed.
@Emris
But Ex-Russian commander Girkin claims the opposite, see:
Former Russian military commander Igor Girkin, continues to harshly criticize President Vladimir Putin and the country’s military in its war against Ukraine. Girkin played an integral role in the 2014 annexation of Crimea as an FSB officer.
“War is when two countries fight,” Girkin, who also uses the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, wrote on Telegram.
“And we don’t go to war, we have a bloody circus. With and without clowns in bloody uniforms. They don’t even know how to fight, and they can’t decide to declare war on the enemy,” he added. NewsweekFriday (21/4/2023).
To this add pictures and videos from Moscow from same time.
Moscow several days ago.
This is how Putin saves christian Russia from multiculturalism.
https://t.me/intelslavaua/13608?single
https://t.me/intelslavaua/13609?single
“Are we occupied?”, – asked a ruskie in Moscow
First of all, we don’t even know if Putin is alive or not. Secondly, there are many factions there. The so called Putinists are the pragmatist faction, which has some neocons.
Best would be to sink the cargo ships already on the way, in Atlantic!
https://www.newsflare.com/video/558194/not-our-war-no-more-involvement-in-ukraine-not-a-penny-more-to-the-zelensky-regime-confronted-by-ukrianian-nationalists-london -NOT OUR WAR! Join the movement! Now!
Pobavil som sa. To musia ale v takom prípade dodať Banderovským fašistickým sviniam aj obsluhu. To znamená posádku ktorá vie obsluhovať toto zariadenie. A myslím, že Ukrajinskí fašisti to určite nevedia.
nurse give me scuba tank in bathtub
this entire deal about how these tanks are somehow the saviors of ressurecting the pie in the sky Ukrainian offensive prove the underlying psychosis of the imperialists of the bankrupt rules based order. The NATO star chamber has entered into an area of uncharted fantasy and perception building. Funny how these perceptions and WMD are the only things they are capable of building.