Santander, Spain (TEH) — The Spanish Ministry of Defense confirmed on Monday that it has shipped another round of Leopard 2A4 tanks and armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. A Spanish military vessel laden with military and humanitarian supplies departed from the port of Santander, bound for Ukraine.
According to a statement from the ministry, the shipment includes four Leopard 2A4 tanks, complementing the six Leopard 2 tanks of the same specifications that Spain had previously delivered to the Ukrainian government.
The military aid package from Madrid to Kiev also incorporates:
- 10 M-113 TOA armored personnel carriers
- 10 Navy trucks for the Ukrainian border service and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
- A multipurpose armored vehicle
- Five ambulances, two of which are armored
The consignment is anticipated to arrive in Ukraine in the first week of August.
In a previous dispatch last week, Spain’s Defense Ministry sent a field hospital to Ukraine, which reached Poland on July 23.
The aid effort comes amidst Russia’s open criticism of Western nations’ military assistance to Ukraine. In July, Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Moscow “categorically does not accept the Western logic of military aid to Ukraine,” reported by Russian TASS. Zakharova contends that Western countries are not striving to halt the war, but are instead “exploiting the ongoing security crisis on the European field.”
