Germany has announced plans to send Leopard 2 tanks to support Ukraine.

 Germany has announced plans to send Leopard 2 tanks to support Ukraine.

Germany has announced plans to send Leopard 2 tanks to support Ukraine.  The U.S. is expected to make a similar announcement later today. More: Berlin previously refrained from sending tanks to Ukraine amid fears of retaliation from Russia. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has committed 14 Leopard 2 tanks and agreed to allow other European countries to send German-made tanks to Ukraine. The U.S. is set to announce later today that it will provide Kyiv with dozens of Abrams M1 tanks, according to a Reuters report citing two sources in Washington. Ukraine government advisor Andriy Yermak celebrated the decision, describing a potential delivery of hundreds of tanks as "a punching fist of democracy". The decision to provide Ukraine with Western tanks was described as "another blatant provocation," by Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador in Washington.