Ukraine will receive US tanks that have been decommissioned, according to the media

The US military is refurbishing older M1 Abrams tanks for delivery to Ukraine, stripping them of top-tier technology to devalue their potential capture by Russian forces. President Joe Biden announced in January that Kiev would get the US main battle tanks, but plans changed by March as the US military opted to refurbish older M1A1 models instead. The 70-ton, gas turbine-powered behemoth was developed in the 1970s and first saw combat in the 1991 Gulf War. Ukrainian troops are scheduled to start training to handle the four-man tanks “later this month” at US bases in Germany. The tanks are expected to arrive later this year, so they will miss Kiev’s much-anticipated “spring offensive”. Russia has deployed some of its most advanced tanks to the Ukrainian battlefield, including the T-90M and the T-14 Armata.