Flash : Atlanticist escalation in Ukraine

Leopard and Challenger tanks from Poland and UK

In the framework of Lublin Triangle, an alliance signed on July 28, 2020, Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets in Lviv, western Ukraine, his counterparts from Lithuania and Poland, Gitanas Nausėda and Andrzej Duda, on January 11, 2023. Together, they decide to reinforce in Ukraine the defense of the so-called Euro-Atlantic coalition. Poland would transfer a company of German-made Leopards, the first ever Western tanks on the battlefield. France has already announced on January 4 the shipment of AMX-10 RCs, which are not tanks, despite their 105 mm gun, but old armored recce vehicles. In the wake of Poland, the UK announces later the delivery of Challengers.

These statements are obvious reactions to the Atlanticist defeat in the area of Bakhmut, despite the massive involvement of Ukrainian reserves and huge casualties. In the evening, Yevgeny Prigozhin states that Wagner has crushed the resistance in…