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High prices, corporate rivalries and a shortage of spare parts hobbled efforts this spring to set up a new repair facility in Poland for Ukraine's Leopard tanks — and in some cases have limited the usefulness of the donated western vehicles, CBC News has learned.
The Leopard-2 tank maintenance center from Ukraine will open in May at the Bumar Labedy plant in Gliwice (Silesian Voivodeship, Poland), Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday.
Andrzej Duda, President of Poland and Mariusz Błaszczak, head of the MoD, visited a training center in Świętoszów, where training of Ukrainian Leopard 2 tank crews is taking place.