Portugal is preparing four Leopard 2A6 tanks for transfer to Ukraine

Correio da Manhã reports this with reference to anonymous sources in the government.

Portugal is preparing to send four Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine. Country has 37 units of such armoured vehicles, 12 of which are fully operational.

Publication notes that the relevant decision was made in the country's government only after approval of Germany, which succumbed to pressure from the allies.

Before that, Portugal announced delivery to our country of only 14 more M113 armoured personnel carriers and eight large power generators. At that time, the Ministry of Defense said that since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 532 tons of military equipment, both lethal and non-lethal, had been sent to Ukraine.

• On January 20, the eighth meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine began in Germany, at American Ramstein Air Base. Head of Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that "this is decisive moment for Ukraine and the whole world."

• On January 20, at a meeting in Ramstein, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that there is currently no "unified approach to the issue of providing Leopard tanks."