Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) (EFE).- The six Leopard 2A4 battle tanks that Spain will send to Ukraine will be ready to go into operation next week, once they have been repaired at the Santa Bárbara Sistemas factory in Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville) ), where the other four recently committed by the Spanish Government will arrive.
This announcement was made this Thursday by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in statements to journalists after visiting the facilities of the Santa Bárbara Sistemas company, where she was able to check the status of the six cars that arrived from Casetas, in Zaragoza, a few years ago. one month and a half.
The tanks had not been used by the Army for about fifteen years and were in a “quite deficient” state, for which reason they have required a “total and absolute overhaul”, in which even to “redo”, as explained by the minister.
For Robles, the important thing is that the Leopards are going to be delivered to Ukraine because the commitment of the Government of Spain is to help the Ukrainian people who are being “massacred” by the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, he added.