Lieutenant-General Valdemaras Rupshis, Commander of the Lithuanian Army, announced this on air on LRT radio.
“You can’t immediately give a particularly large number of tanks, because first you need to train.
Speaking of tanks as a means, the Ukrainian army has not used a single tank of this type so far, it does not have it in service, ”he said.
Earlier, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace called on the German authorities to approve the supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Prior to this, adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak, in an interview with The Globe and Mail, said that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky wants to ask Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg approved plans to supply Kyiv with light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
On January 9, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the supply of arms by the West to Ukraine could fundamentally change nothing.
He also called the US and NATO a de facto indirect party to the conflict in Ukraine.