The UK has confirmed for the first time that it’s planning to send “game changing” tanks to Ukraine, pledging to accelerate its support with the kind of technology which could help Ukraine win the war against Russia.
Poland has also pledged to transfer a company of Lepoard tanks, after President Zelenskyy met the Polish prime minister for talks in Lviv.
Ukraine has been asking western allies to provide hundreds of tanks – as fighting intensifies around the embattled eastern towns of Soledar and Bakhmut.