US President Joe Biden is ready to transfer Abrams tanks to Ukraine in order to influence Germany, which has not yet made a decision on the possible supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.

This is reported by NV with reference to the Sky News Arabia TV channel.

According to an anonymous person in charge at the Pentagon, Biden can transfer 10 such tanks to Ukraine.

The interlocutor of the TV channel also noted that Germany "needs to stop resisting" and transfer the Leopard to Ukraine.

Officially, the American side has not yet commented on this information.

It should be noted that on January 5, The Washington Post, citing sources, reported that the Administration of US President Joe Biden rejects the shipment of Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine due to a number of technical reasons.

Transfer of Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine: what is known 

On January 20, during a meeting in the Ramstein format, the allies did not make a decision on the supply of Leopard to Ukraine.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that 

Berlin is ready to speed up the transfer of tanks

.

Because of this, Germany began to be sharply criticized by other states.

In Poland, they said that they are ready to hand over modern tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine without the participation of Germany, and sent a request to the government of this country regarding the handing over of weapons to Ukraine. 

On January 24, it became known that Germany promises to urgently consider Poland's request for the transfer of Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine. 

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