US, Germany To Send Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine Following France’s Military Support for Kyiv

In a significant strategic change from the Western allies of Ukraine, America and Germany will send armored vehicles to Ukraine.

Joe Biden was scheduled to make the announcement that the US will supply 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, sometimes known as light tanks, and that Berlin will provide Marder vehicles, giving Ukraine a considerable increase in weaponry.

Ukraine Allies Send More Military Aids

The action of Macron put pressure on Western partners who had previously refrained from sending tanks to the front lines out of concern for upsetting Vladimir Putin, according to The Telegraph.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly stated on Thursday that the UK was willing to send tanks to Ukraine and that will continue to evolve our supportas Kiev gets ready for the next phase of their self defense. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been pleading with the West for months for armored vehicles, which he claims Kyiv urgently needs to combat the tanks that have been a major advantage for Russia in the battle thus far.

On Thursday, officials in Washington revealed that they had changed their position regarding the vehicles in response to similar announcements made by Western allies. Tanks have been supplied by Poland, and France announced on Wednesday that it will send an unknown quantity of its AMX-10RC armored vehicles.

The Bradleys will be a part of a massive new $2.85 billion US military aid package, the White House's most recent effort to deliver more potent and lethal weapons to aid Kiev in repelling Russian soldiers, as per New York Post.

Russia-Ukraine War

Furthermore, the US and a number of NATO partners have since equipped and trained Ukrainian soldiers amid accusations from Kyiv and its backers that Moscow has been waging an eight-year covert campaign of aggression.

In February, Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of the country next door, leading to the annexation of four more regions-the self-declared Donbas republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia-in another round of unofficial elections and bolstering Western support for Ukraine.

While the White House insisted that these weapons were only provided to Ukraine in order to defend its borders, Antonov claimed that any discourse about a 'defensive character' of weapons supplied to Ukraine has long since been ludicrous.

Such claims, as well as the idea that the former Soviet Republic and its aspirations to join the NATO alliance presented any threat to its larger neighbor, have been vigorously refuted by Kyiv. Zelensky has also accused Vladimir Putin of war crimes on claims that Russian troops had committed atrocities as the battle for these four districts raged on.

Antonov was particularly scathing of the fact that the most recent decision to supply Bradley Fighting Vehicles was made public only after a phone call between US and US allies while aid to Ukraine continues to flow.

President Joe Biden and Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany. The Minsk agreements served to give time to Kiev to build its military capabilities, Antonov claimed, denouncing the West's involvement in the larger fight. Former leaders Angela Merkel of Germany and Francois Hollande of France had previously admitted this.

The series of agreements reached between Kyiv and the separatists in 2014 and 2015 under the mediation of the two European chiefs of state were meant to terminate the conflict, but both sides frequently alleged violations. In light of a history of unsuccessful diplomacy, Antonov claimed that the most recent occurrences were proof of a long-running strategy to destabilize Russia.

Relationships between the US and its allies, who have joined Zelensky in calling for Putin to remove his soldiers from Ukraine, and Russia have been badly strained as a result of the conflict. However, Antonov claimed that nobody should still have concerns who bears responsibility for prolonging this conflict given the trajectory of events.

It also happened shortly after separate conversations between Putin and Zelensky and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who has managed to broker deals on grain and prisoner exchanges between Moscow and Kiev during the conflict, Newsweek via MSN reported.