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Ukraine Invasion Day 333: Is Russia's best anti-tank system Gerhard Schröder's SPD [1]
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Date: 2023-01-21
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Air Force launched 21 strikes on enemy clusters and seven more on the positions of its anti-aircraft missile systems.
This is stated in the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06:00, January 20, published on Facebook. "Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched nine missile strikes, 23 airstrikes, and more than 80 MLRS attacks. There is an increased threat of airstrikes and missile strikes on civilian objects throughout the territory of Ukraine," the report reads. The enemy focuses its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. In Kupyansk, Lyman, Novopavlivka, and Kherson directions, the Russians defend themselves. Over the past day, the Ukrainian troops repelled the enemy attacks in the areas of Novoselivske and Bilohorivka in Luhansk region; Verkhniokamyanske, Krasnopolivka, Soledar, Krasna Hora, Paraskoviivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske, Dyliivka, Vodiane, Marinka, Pobeda, Novosilka in Donetsk region; Mala Tokmachka and Stepove in Zaporizhzhia region. www.ukrinform.net/... Despite German efforts to pressure the U.S. into providing Abrams tanks to Ukraine, the Pentagon’s top leaders are against sending them, three U.S. officials said.
The German government signaled it may send its own Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine if the U.S. also agrees to send Ukraine the M1 Abrams, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisting Germany will only act in concert with allies.
The three U.S. officials said Berlin has tried to put the U.S. on the spot about sending Abrams tanks, and there has been frustration within the Biden administration with Germany over the back and forth. The officials insist the German pressure is not going to work.
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During public remarks Friday, Austin appeared to allude to what U.S. officials said his position has been privately — that he does not see tanks as critical to the current fight in Ukraine and that they can’t be brought on line right away.
Austin deflected a question about tanks by saying, “What we’re really focused on is making sure that Ukraine has the capability that it needs to be successful right now.”
“We have a window of opportunity here. You know, between now and the spring when I, you know, whenever they commence their operation, their counteroffensive. And that’s not a long time. And we have to pull together the right capabilities.”
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