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Germany begins training Ukrainian military in the use of Leopard 2 main battle tanks

BERLIN, 13 Feb.

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Germany begins training Ukrainian military in the use of Leopard 2 main battle tanks

BERLIN, 13 Feb. (DPA/EP) -

The German Armed Forces have started this Monday the training of the Ukrainian military in handling the Leopard 2 tank, after Berlin has promised Kiev fourteen of these tanks to face the Russian invasion, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

The training will be given mainly at the tank school in the town of Munster, in Lower Saxony, and is expected to end before the end of the first term so that the transfer of the tanks can also take place in a "synchronized" way, according to a Defense Ministry spokesman quoted by the German news agency DPA.

The training program has started after Berlin began the training of Ukrainian soldiers in the use of the Marder infantry fighting vehicle, within the framework of German support for the Ukrainian Army, which will include the delivery of more than one hundred Leopard 1 tanks, the old model of these battle tanks, coming from several countries of the European Union.

The shipment of the Leopard 2 was confirmed at the end of January by the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, after days of speculation about the position that Berlin would finally adopt and the repeated requests from Kiev to receive this type of weapon. After that, the German Executive explained that it will deliver fourteen Leopard 2A6s that are in the arsenal of the German Armed Forces.