{"id":33591,"date":"2023-03-28T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=33591"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:56:16","slug":"ukraine-gets-new-heavy-tanks-russia-doubles-down-on-nuke-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=33591","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine gets new heavy tanks, Russia doubles down on nuke plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany and Britain have delivered Western heavy tanks to Ukraine, officials said Monday, providing a key infusion of armored firepower that will aid Kyiv’s battle against invading Russian troops.<\/p>\n

The tanks — long an item on Ukraine’s military equipment wish list — were promised to Kyiv earlier this year and have arrived in time for an expected spring offensive by Ukraine’s forces.<\/p>\n

As Ukraine gains conventional firepower, the Kremlin vowed to follow through on a plan announced by President Vladimir Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, an initiative which has drawn widespread criticism.<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told journalists on Monday that Berlin had provided “very modern” Leopard battle tanks to Kyiv, with the defence ministry later saying 18 were delivered.<\/p>\n

“Our tanks have made it into the hands of our Ukrainian friends as promised and on time,” German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in a statement.<\/p>\n

They are joined by Challenger tanks from Britain, a spokeswoman for the defence ministry in Kyiv said.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germany and Britain have delivered Western heavy tanks to Ukraine, officials said Monday, providing a key infusion of armored firepower that will aid Kyiv’s battle against invading Russian troops. The tanks — long an item on Ukraine’s military equipment wish list — were promised to Kyiv earlier this year and have arrived in time for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33594,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591\/revisions\/33594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}