WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is leaning towards sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine and a delivery announcement could come this week, US officials said.
The announcement will be part of a wider diplomatic understanding with Germany that includes Berlin will agree to send a small number of It has its own panther 2 tank and would also approve more deliveries of German-built tanks by Poland and other countries. This would settle a trans-Atlantic disagreement over tanks that had threatened to spill over at the end of the first year of the war.