The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov, said that Western countries had supplied about 60 Leopard tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Reznikov said this in an interview with the publishing house Funke Mediengruppe.

Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the American Abrams tanks a children's car compared to the modernized T-72. He said that the Russian military was instructed and had an understanding of how to destroy German Leopard tanks.