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Yeah. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, the mood in Kiev must be very upbeat this morning with the news that both the US and Germany have finally turned on the kit taps and have agreed to send both Abrams and Leopard 2 main battle tanks to give

a mighty boost to their armament build-up as they get ready for a Titanic spring battle that

could decide, of course, whether this war ends quickly or carries on slowly.

Yep, that sounds like a real game changer, doesn't it, Saul?

But the front, meanwhile, seems to be pretty much stalemated.

The news has been rather sparse from there.

So we're very lucky to have this week a report from the front lines around Backmood.

And it's given to us by Julius Strauss,

who's just been there with another friend of the podcast, Matt McKinnon, who we heard from a few weeks back. What he has to say is fascinating and revealing, and it has to be said not for the

faint-hearted. Yeah, maybe not one to listen to in the car if you have children with you.

But first of all, that new kit, it really is something, isn't it?

Yes, it certainly is. We've been expecting, indeed, hoping for this news for some time, Patrick,

and it didn't look like it was going to come. As late as last week, the meeting at Ramstein,

the NATO Defence Ministers meeting at Ramstein, a lot of pressure

put on Germany, particularly by Poland, to give the go ahead, not only to send their own tanks,

but certainly to let Poland donate its tanks to Ukraine. And the indications there were that the

Germans weren't going to buckle, but a lot of pressure obviously has been put on since then. And we're

now getting some strong figures. It seems that the final push yesterday came from Poland and asking

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