{"id":51781,"date":"2023-05-27T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51781"},"modified":"2025-05-27T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:10:06","slug":"a-spectacular-video-of-the-ukrainian-army-with-leopard-2a4-tanks-donated-by-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/27\/a-spectacular-video-of-the-ukrainian-army-with-leopard-2a4-tanks-donated-by-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular video of the Ukrainian Army with Leopard 2A4 tanks donated by Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasta ahora no se hab\u00edan difundido im\u00e1genes de los seis Leopard 2A4 entregados por Espa\u00f1a a Ucrania, pero por fin lleg\u00f3 ese d\u00eda.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/24\/an-excellent-series-of-photographs-of-leopard-2a4-tanks-already-on-ukrainian-soil\/\">An excellent series of photographs of Leopard 2A4 tanks already on Ukrainian soil<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/23\/the-details-that-will-allow-distinguishing-the-leopard-2a4s-donated-by-spain-to-ukraine\/\">The details that will allow distinguishing the Leopard 2A4s donated by Spain to Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/strong> today published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s7XWHOp_50M\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank \">a spectacular video<\/a> to encourage enlistment. In the video we can see some of the military materials donated by NATO countries to Ukraine: <strong>Leopard 2A4 tanks, Oshkosh L-ATV armored vehicles, M-777 howitzers and M-142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers<\/strong>. The video, of cinematographic quality, has been produced by the production company FILM.UA Group and directed by Maxim Smetana:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u041c\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0432\u0430 \u0437\u0430 \u0432\u0438\u0437\u0432\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7XWHOp_50M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The images of the tanks that appear in the video appear to have been recorded in the same place as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/24\/an-excellent-series-of-photographs-of-leopard-2a4-tanks-already-on-ukrainian-soil\/\">the photos of Serhiy Mykhalchuk that we saw this Wednesday<\/a>. In those photos, as I already pointed out here, Leopard 2A4s delivered by Canada and Poland appeared. I took it for granted that I would not see one of the Leopard 2A4s delivered by Spain in this video either, until <strong>at point 0:09 of the video a smile came to my face when I saw this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52930268054_4127f2892b_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52930268054_e528d99ed3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We see three Leopard 2A4 tanks in this image.<\/strong> The one in the back looks like the one we saw the other day with a flag (apparently one of the ones delivered by Canada). But <strong>the tank pictured here has the same olive green uniform scheme as<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/23\/the-details-that -will-allow-to-distinguish-the-leopard-2a4-donated-by-spain-to-ukraine\/\">the six Leopard 2A4 delivered by Spain<\/a> and which arrived in Poland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infodefensa.com\/texto-diario\/mostrar\/4271235\/llegan-polonia-seis-primeros-leopard-2a4-espanoles-ucrania\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the end of April<\/a>. The tank on the left (only a corner is visible) appears to be painted the same color, a slightly light olive green. <strong>Let's remember how they were painted before being sent to Ukraine:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52767043850_248442a5e8_b.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52767043850_248442a5e8_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have carefully reviewed the photo and it matches the Spanish Leopard 2A4. March 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/23\/the-details-that-will-allow-distinguishing-the-leopard-2a4s-donated-by-spain-to-ukraine\/\">we saw here the details that would allow us to distinguish the tanks delivered by Spain<\/a> from the Leopard 2A4 delivered by other countries. As I told you then, <strong>there are only two other countries that delivered their tanks painted in olive green: Canada and Norway<\/strong>. Polish Leopard 2A4s wore the three-color NATO camouflage, while Finnish tanks wore their country's camouflage (also three colors).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52929517237_f4bb433c66_b.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52929517237_f4bb433c66_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a feature that easily distinguishes the Spanish Leopard 2A4 from those delivered by Canada and Norway: <strong>Spanish tanks do not have added compartments at the rear of the turret<\/strong>, while Canadian and Norwegian tanks do. they take them. And as you can see in the image above these lines, <strong>that Ukrainian tank doesn't have them<\/strong>. I am 100% sure that we are looking at one of the tanks delivered by Spain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52930490300_f29f41d558_k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52930490300_2279419779_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the video there are more sequences of the Leopard 2A4 <\/strong>, but due to the lighting, it is not easy to distinguish if it is the Spanish tanks. However, at 0:49 of the video we see them again (on these lines). <strong>The tank on the right is one of those donated by Spain and the one in the center seems to be one of them as well<\/strong> (although I'm not so sure about this one anymore). The tank on the left is not one of the Spanish (at least this is indicated by the rings on the lower front of the barge: the Spanish do not).<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, <strong>what is recited in the video is titled \"Prayer for the Liberation of Ukraine\"<\/strong>, and is based on a prayer written by Osyp Mashchak in the 1920s. The prayer reads as follows :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ukraine, Motherland,<br \/>\nLord, Our Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nBless us!<\/p>\n<p>I will destroy<br \/>\nThe enemies of the Fatherland,<br \/>\nThe murderers of my brothers<br \/>\nThe rapists of my sisters.<\/p>\n<p>May my hand be firm,<br \/>\nTo kill the enemies!<br \/>\nLet my eye be clear<br \/>\nTo kill the enemies!<br \/>\nMay my gun be in good condition<br \/>\nTo kill the enemies!<br \/>\nMay my will be made of steel<br \/>\nTo kill the enemies!<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, Motherland,<br \/>\nLord, Our Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nBless us!<\/p>\n<p>Our decisive attack!<br \/>\nOur holy revenge!<br \/>\nOur holy victory!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasta ahora no se hab\u00edan difundido im\u00e1genes de los seis Leopard 2A4 entregados por Espa\u00f1a a Ucrania, pero por fin lleg\u00f3 ese d\u00eda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[2290,16720,18787,13818,16153,15307,16151],"class_list":["post-51781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-leopard-2","tag-m-142-himars","tag-m-777","tag-oshkosh-l-atv","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}