Poland is ready to send 60 PT-91 and 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine – Polish PM
Warsaw is ready to hand over 60 Polish PT-91 tanks (a modernized version of the T-72) and 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.
The head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, said this in an interview with the Canadian TV channel CTV News.
"Poland sent 250 tanks [to Ukraine] as the first country half a year ago or even more than that. Right now, we are ready to send 60 of our modernized tanks, 30 of them PT-91. And on top of those tanks, 14 tanks, Leopard 2 tanks, from in our possession," the Prime Minister of Poland said.
He drew attention to the fact that modern tanks are essential for Ukraine now, given that russia can have from a few to 15 thousand of them.
"And if we don't want Ukraine to be defeated, we have to be very much open and brave in supporting Ukraine," the Polish Prime Minister emphasized.
According to him, Poland is now taking the following steps so that various countries join the international coalition transferring Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
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Poland's Deputy Minister of National Defense, Wojciech Skurkiewicz, said that Poland plans to hand over Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in the next few weeks.
In a comment to the mass media, the former commander of the Polish Ground Forces, ex-deputy minister of defense of the country, General Waldemar Skrzypchak, expressed the opinion that Poland can prepare 58 Ukrainian crews of Leopard 2 tanks, that is, the composition of a tank battalion, within 3-4 weeks.
According to him, Poland has the appropriate potential, training and repair bases, and logistics to organize the training of Ukrainian tankers.
Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak recently said that Poland would hand over tanks and BMPs to Ukraine to arm one mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is ready to prepare the personnel of this military unit by March.
