In January, Western nations pledged to send to Ukraine several dozen modern Leopard 2 tanks, a scarce asset in most armies today. Scrambling to find more heavy armour for Kyiv, they later also turned to the industry's mothballed Leopard 1 tanks. Citing reasons of operational security, Marlow declined to give a number for the Ukrainian tank crews trained and tanks delivered so far. However, he said that the training of the next Ukrainian Leopard 1 crews would start as soon as the current round of training wraps up next week. "We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.

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Persons: Annegret, General Andreas Marlow, Marlow, Sabine Siebold, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Leopard, European Union Military Assistance, EUMAM, REUTERS, Command, IRIS, KMW, Germany's Bundeswehr, Ukrainian, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, EUMAM Ukraine, Klietz, Germany, Berlin, Kyiv, Denmark, Ukrainian