Ukraine war: supply of advanced tanks will give Kyiv an edge over Russia and move it closer to Nato

By Frank Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth

When he appeared before the UK’s House of Commons Defence Committee in November 2021 to defend his government’s cuts to the armed forces, the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, declared that “the old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over”. Committee chairman Tobias Elwood noted that it was tanks that were massing on Russia’s border with Ukraine, while the UK was cutting back its own fleet.

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