Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that the U.S. will begin training Ukrainian forces on American-made Abrams tanks in the coming weeks.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is pictured during the meeting of the 'Ukraine Defense Contact Group' at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, April 21, 2023.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Friday that the U.S. will begin training Ukrainian forces on American-made Abrams tanks in the coming weeks.
A Ukrainian service member walks near residential buildings damaged by a Russian military strike in the front line town of Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 21, 2023.Thirty-one Abrams M1A1s will arrive at a training area in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in mid to late May, with up to 250 Ukrainian troops beginning a 10-week course there soon after, according to U.S. officials. Follow-on maneuver training might also be done on a different base in Germany.
In March, after consultation with Kyiv, Pentagon officials announced a plan to dramatically speed delivery of the 31 tanks the U.S. had committed to Ukraine by refurbishing older models instead of building new ones from scratch, which was the original plan. Building new M1A2 Abrams could have taken years, according to defense officials.
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