Portugal announces shipment of Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine
Portugal's Prime Minister António Costa announced Saturday the dispatch of Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine as part of a logistics operation coordinated with Germany that includes the repair of some of these vehicles.
Costa informed about the measure after finishing his visit to the Portuguese military mission in Central African Republic and stressed that this shipment will not affect the Portuguese military capacity in terms of equipment, according to the Portuguese press.
"At the moment we are working to be able to get the conditions to deliver some of our tanks. I know how many tanks they will be, but it will be announced at the right time," Costa said.
When questioned about the date of delivery of the tanks, Costa said that "the movement that is underway in Europe is in the sense of having the set of means made available by the end of March".
Lisbon is in communication with Berlin to "allow a logistic operation for the supply of parts in order to complete the recovery of some of the tanks that were not operational".
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