Michael McCall, head of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, said that sending at least one Abrams tank to Ukraine could motivate other countries to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.. Politico reports..

McCall said the U.S. needs to take steps to nudge European countries into action and help President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine avoid a protracted, bloody war of attrition..

“If we announce that we are going to give Abrams tanks, even one, this will lead to... As I heard, Germany expects us to take the initiative,” he said.

The head of the committee stressed that the transfer of the tank to Ukraine would create a domino effect, which would force other European countries to send Leopard 2 tanks..

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Recall, earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that countries with Leopard tanks could create a coalition without Germany in order to transfer them to Ukraine..