Poland Ready to Set Up Maintenance Hub for Ukraine’s Leopard Tanks
Polish and Ukrainian soldiers on a Leopard 2 A4 tank during training in Swietoszow, Poland.
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Poland is ready to set up a hub to service Leopard battle tanks that are being sent to Ukraine, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Tuesday.
Blaszczak expects his German counterpart Boris Pistorius to convince the country’s industry to deliver spare parts for older-type Leopard tanks that Poland had committed to deliver to Ukraine. The lack of spare parts has created frictions between the government in Warsaw and Berlin.