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Event in front of Turkish embassy will further inflame tensions between two countries

Ukraine has urged Germany to provide the stealth tanks but NATO has failed to agree amid Russian threats.

WASHINGTON: The billions of United States dollars in new arms for Ukraine announced this month — including British tanks, American fighting vehicles, and howitzers from Denmark and Sweden — are testament to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies after nearly a year…

Even as Western allies announced a massive new military aid package to Ukraine, the spotlight has lingered on the German-made battle tank, which Germany has been reluctant to provide.

Ukrainian forces will train on Leopard-2 battle tanks in Poland, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov was quoted as saying on Friday, even though allies failed to reach an agreement to supply the German-made vehicles to Kyiv.

Failure to provide German battle tanks at meeting may signal growing divisions within NATO over supplying such weapons.

Ukraine continues to need American weapons to hold out against Russia, and now a global military spending boom is set to further benefit the US arms industry. There are accusations of "profiteering", but is there any alternative?

Kyiv hopes western tanks could provide tactical breakthrough; dozens die in Dnipro attack; Germany gets a new defence minister

Billions of dollars in new Western military aid, including infantry fighting vehicles - though no German tanks - will gird Ukraine for counterattacks to foil Moscow's efforts to revive its faltering invasion.