Ukraine to get armoured combat vehicles from West, asks for tanks

Ukraine’s Western allies have for the first time moved towards supplying armoured fighting vehicles to Ukrainian troops but not the heavier tanks Kyiv has requested to help fight Russian forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday that his government would send French-made light AMX-10 RC armoured combat vehicles to help Ukraine’s defence effort, a French official said after a phone call between the two leaders.