 Poland received the first 14 U.S. Abrams tanks on June 28, as part of a deal with Washington signed in 2022. Warsaw ordered a total of 250 state-of-the-art Abrams battle tanks in addition to 116 modernized ones as it seeks to bolster its military in an effort to deter potential Russian aggression on its eastern border. Speaking in Szesim where the tanks were delivered, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blazak said soldiers from the 18th Mechanized Division of the Polish Army had been already trained by the U.S. Army to operate the tanks. They will close the breastgate, a strip of land that stretches from the Far East, reaching the Vistula River and our task is to close this gate, deter the aggressor, make the aggressor not enter the Polish soil, Blazak said. I would like to emphasize that this is the first batch. This is the first company of tanks, these 14 tanks. This year we will have another tanks that will create Battalion of Abrams tanks.