\u201cnearing the end of their working lives.\u201d<\/em> Some of the donated hardware will need to be repaired before getting shipped to Ukraine, while others will be cannibalized for spare parts.<\/p>\nKiev had clamored for Western-made tanks ahead of the failed spring offensive in 2023. Washington pledged to deliver the stripped-down, older Abrams models as a way of pressuring Berlin to send more of the German-made Leopards, while the UK sent around a dozen Challenger 2 vehicles.<\/p>\n
Far from being the hoped-for \u201cgame changer,\u201d<\/em> however, the Western tanks ended up being vulnerable to drones and guided artillery rounds. Those damaged vehicles that could be recovered had to be sent to Poland for repairs, a process that took weeks.<\/p>\nRussia has repeatedly warned the US and its allies that their deliveries of weapons to Ukraine merely prolong the fighting without affecting its outcome, as well as risked a direct confrontation. The West has insisted that supplying Kiev with hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons, ammunition, equipment and cash does not actually make it a party to the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australia will donate more Abrams tanks to Kiev than the US has given Australia has announced it will donate most of its retired M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, after months of Kiev begging for any hardware Canberra could spare. The US sent Ukraine 31 Abrams in mid-2023. More than half have reportedly been destroyed in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}