A U.S. official and a source familiar with the issue said the Pentagon would expedite Abrams tank deliveries to Ukraine this fall.
After months of avoiding sending Ukraine the hard-to-maintain M1 Abrams tanks, the Biden administration agreed to provide 31. A House aide briefed on the situation said the revised proposal speeds delivery by nearly a year.
While the Pentagon had only said it would take “months” to deploy the tanks to Ukraine, a spokesperson declined to comment on the accelerated schedule.
“We’re working on that,” White House spokeswoman John Kirby told CNN on Tuesday. “Some process tweaks can speed that up.”
