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What to know about Western tanks going to Ukraine – BBC Newsnight
One month short of a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, it’s testament to how far the Western allies have come in their engagement with the conflict that Germany has confirmed it will send its tanks into combat – so far 14 Leopard 2s.
Now other countries with Leopard 2s will follow suit. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a hugely significant moment told the country, “Trust me … the decision is the right one.”
At the beginning of the conflict there was outrage when Germany sent just 5000 helmets and a field hospital.
Now, the country is in the top three donors of both military and humanitarian aid. President Biden said that Chancellor Scholz has been “a strong voice for unity, and a close friend,” as he announced the US is sending 31 Abrams tanks, insisting the new deployments were “no offensive threat to Russia”.
Newsnight’s International Correspondent Joe Inwood reports on the West’s commitments to Ukraine from London’s National Army Museum.
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Relatives of those who died in the Air India plane disaster have been marking the first anniversary by keeping vigil at the site in Ahmedabad.
Flight 171 crashed just 32 seconds after takeoff, killing 260 people. One man onboard survived.
Air accident investigators say a final report on the cause of the disaster will be released once all its work has been completed.
But many families of the victims have been voicing their frustration with the process, and the lack of answers they have been offered. Some have yet to receive the remains of their loved ones to hold a proper burial.
We speak to the BBC’s Azadeh Moshiri who is at the site in Ahmedabad.
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00:00 Introduction
00:21 What happened on the day of the crash?
01:50 The chaos after the disaster
03:03 What have air traffic investigators said?
04:22 The interim report
06:45 What Boeing and Air India have said
09:40 The mix-up of remains from the crash
11:45 The sole survivor
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More than a year ago on 12 June 2025, a London-bound Air India flight crashed just 32 seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad.
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Royal Marine Commandos have boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Marines, joined by National Crime Agency officers, with the support of the RAF, intercepted and boarded the vessel in a six-hour operation – the first operation of its kind by UK armed forces.
The vessel, Smyrtos, will be held and monitored off the south coast of England as investigations continue, the MoD said.
Joe Pike joins Laura and Paddy to go through what we know about the operation, and put it into context in light of a week of resignations over the government’s defence investment plan.
00:00 Intro
02:10 What did the operation involve?
06:12 How the operation unfolded
08:24 Wider strategy against Russia’s shadow fleet
10:09 Defence spending pressures explained
12:05 Political fallout after defence resignations
16:11 Leadership tensions inside government
18:17 Defence funding choices and trade-offs
21:43 Iran talks
25:26 What a potential deal could mean
27:03 Planned social media ban for under-16s
31:41 Scotland match reaction
32:00 Outro
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@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will be killing Russian murderers in no time!
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
We have parts and they have mechs….its weeks not months….
@davidjensen266
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
It's bs….thos ukrainians are killing our enemy?…we have c5 galaxies and they know where start button is….
@Steinstra-vj7wl
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
…they don't go.
@cestwhat1317
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
I’m embarrassed by the gutless wonders our leaders are. This trickle down defense support is bs. As if our leaders wish to watch thru a sadistic lens the slaughter of Ukrainian people.
@gilbertozuniga8063
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will not make a difference!
@nopsevdonim333
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
fuck your tanks. they will burn like your entire economy. even if the war had not ended and we would have walked up to you, for your supplies, to be answered.
@tasmigz4076
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Residents of Staromlinovka saying russians soldiers are treating them well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgdqVhQVBY
@gigie555
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Ukraine is winning this war, according to the western media, but they need more weapons? While the Russians have 10 times more artillery than Ukraine, they are losing 10 times more men, also according to the western media. Seems someone is not being entirely truthful.
@m4d_mark_xtr3me79
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
When you add in other promises…
Yeah, so we can do 59 tanks, is that okay?
-No we need 300
Well we've already given you millions and sent volunteers.
Some how I don't think that's 130, someone's telling porkies
@acidbot666
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If the objective is to get to global thermonuclear incineration asap we must agree that the west is doing extremely well!
@ckwaiutube
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
depleted uranium shells together? it's endless catastrophic to the people there. looks what happen to balkan war and iraq war, peoples health suffered. satanic unleashed.
@SmokeDog1871
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Its good that the germans have developed a national conscious but its unforunately now something that the russians are using to take advantage of them and cause the same trauma that the nazis did. At some point this development of germany must evolve into the idea that they are no longer nazis and are willing to stand up for others who are being attacked.
@rosskious7084
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
What we know about Western tanks? Thanks to the Grandstanding and public fight the Western Countries has done and the amount of training that is needed the Russians know when to launch their assault to be the most effective. We need to get them massive amounts of Artillery guns, Himars, Tow missiles and ammo to do until the Training is finished and help with the coming attack. All the tanks they already know how to use needs to be sent ASAP and the training accelerated on the rest. Any MIG fighters or Russian attack helicopters the world can find needs to be scraped up and sent to help blunt the attack.
@mray8519
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The Abrams uses a turbine engine, the worst choice possible. Complex, extremely vulnerable to dirt ingestion, expensive to maintain, difficult to repair. Total POS.
@basedglennuk
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Excellent 💪https://youtu.be/8EVrYAu-3B0
@first8208
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
US has nothing to lose! All these weapons are taken from our tax money
@chrissharkey6172
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
They will burn 🔥 shame on you Germany 🇩🇪
@GerardVaughan-qe7ml
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Clayton Morris talks with Scott Ritter.
Tanks to Ukrain ?!
https://youtu.be/UL5RR3xnq_w
@Samy.Channel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Yes send panzers back at eastern front
@user-ly6pl5ot9m
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Thanks to all nations who help Ukraine to resist russian madness and Putin's fascism!
@phil20_20
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
If NATO was there, you would be running all these different tanks anyway… mostly they shoot the same ammo. At least Challenger uses 120mm. They also want to change to the caseless ammo, so I'm sure they can part with the old stuff.
@leonardmayer2362
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
The sending of tanks to Ukraine could not happen soon enough! What the Germans did in WWII is let an intellectually incompetent man like Hitler lead them into a war. They did not need Hitler. He was economically illiterate and a cognitive failure. What Germany needed was an educated and cognitively competent person to lead Germany out of its economic problems and prosper as it could. It is a problem in the world where you have intellectually incompetent people taking the reins of power. Putin is one example. Putin has stolen the right of self government and the right of liberty from the Russian people. He is trying to do the same in Ukraine by killing women and children and taking over the country. He is so incompetent that everything he says or does is fraudulent.
@CieplinskiPawel
January 26, 2024 at 1:25 pm
My late Grandpa, WW2 survivor:
In 1945 when Soviet tanks crossed Poland WE WISHED IT WAS GERMANS 39' AGAIN‼️