Since February, Ukrainian tank crews have reportedly been training on the Leopard 2A6 at the Bundeswehr facility in Münster, in Lower Saxony. Poland, meanwhile, has supplied Ukraine with a battalion of Leopard 2A4 tanks, and Spain is contributing another six Leopard 2A4s.
Elsewhere in Europe, Portugal is contributing three Leopard 2A6 tanks and Sweden 10. On March 27, the German Federal Ministry of Defense announced the formal transfer of 18 Leopard 2A6 tanks (an increase of four tanks over the original pledge) at the Ukraine border. This announcement represented the conclusion of months of wrangling between NATO members over the transfer of high-end main battle tanks to Ukraine. On January 25, the German government announced it would transfer an initial 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and allow other NATO allies to likewise transfer Leopard 2s to Ukraine.
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