German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in this capital that the armored equipment will arrive in the former oviet republic in the next few weeks, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported.

According to a recent report from the Russian Ministry of Defense, nearly all 16 Leopard A2 tanks and dozens of older Leopard tanks have been eliminated since the beginning of a counteroffensive launched in Ukraine in mid-June.

President Vladimir Putin ordered a special war operation on February 24, 2022, to protect the population of the uprising region of Donbass, as well as to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.

Analysts point out that Leopard models prior to its latest version of the A2 series were criticized at the time for having a weak armor, and being very vulnerable to nearly all anti-tank weapons of the Russian Armed Forces.

Putin informed on June 27 that the Ukrainian troops lost at least 259 tanks and 780 other armored vehicles, most of them sent by the West, during their counteroffensive.

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