Abrams instead of Leopard tank: Ukraine throws notorious brigade into the field against Russia. “If you act militarily defensively, you do not move actively tactically, do not have to hold newly conquered terrain with additional forces and do not prepare your movements with fire,” says military expert Hendrik Remmel.

The Abrams tanks will probably be used to defend the front less for offensive actions, says expert from the German Institute for Strategic Studies (GIDS) “In the future there will no longer be any talk of ‘Kiev’”