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EU Nations have vowed to send more Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine.
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Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands have pledged to provide at least 100 of the weapons for Kyiv.
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The new pledge was announced on Tuesday after Ukraine reported the deadliest 24 hours of the war with Russia.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Three European countries have promised Ukraine that it will get at least 100 tanks in the “coming months” as the German defence minister made a surprise visit to Kyiv.
The German, Dutch and Danish defence ministries also said training and support would be provided for the Leopard 1 tanks, ahead of the delivery of more advanced battle tanks in the future.
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The pledge on Tuesday was made as Ukraine reported the deadliest 24 hours of the war so far for Russian soldiers as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east, bringing tens of thousands of freshly mobilised troops onto the battlefield.
The Ukrainian military increased its running tally of Russian military dead by 1,030 overnight to 133,190. The Ukrainian claim that it was the highest number of Russians killed in one day could not be independently verified.
Russia has also claimed to have killed large numbers of Ukrainian troops in recent weeks. It said it had inflicted 6,500 Ukrainian casualties in the month of January.
The assertion that the fighting was the deadliest so far fits descriptions from both sides of an escalating campaign of close-contact trench warfare, which has left the snow-covered battlefields of eastern Ukraine littered with bodies.
Close to the town of Maryinka, 30km (18.6 miles) west of the eastern city of Donetsk, a marine unit of Ukraine’s armed forces fired rockets on Russian positions with a Soviet-era launch system.
“They storm in small infantry groups, trying to creep in farther and farther,” a soldier who gave his name only as Ievhen told the Reuters news agency. “Even without the previous artillery strikes [on Ukrainian positions], their infantry attempts to move in.”
“The enemy adapted quite well,” he said. “They learn as fast as we do. They have adopted different kinds of tactics.”
Kyiv and the West say Russia has been pouring troops and mercenaries into eastern Ukraine in recent weeks in hopes of being able to claim new gains around this month’s first anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The war will soon enter its second year at a pivotal juncture as Moscow tries to regain the initiative while Kyiv holds out for Western tanks to mount a counteroffensive later in 2023.
After Russia failed to capture the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, last year and lost ground in the second half of 2022, Moscow is now making full use of hundreds of thousands of soldiers it called up in its first mobilisation since World War II.
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