 Germany objects to England and US because their tanks didn't participate in battles in Ukraine yet. The US and the UK seek to protect the prestige of their defence industries as long as possible as they delay the supplies of their Abrams and Challenger tanks to Kiev in order to keep them out of harm's way. Alexander Mikhailov, the head of the Bureau of Military and Political Analysis of Russia, told TASS. Instead, German-made leopard armoured vehicles get burned down on the battlefield, dimming the prospects for Germany's arms manufacturers, he said. Mikhailov was commenting on Western news media reports that UK-made Challenger 2 had so far been unseen at the battlefront, even though the UK was supposed to provide them to Ukraine. The analyst said he agreed with his Western counterparts that it was a vivid example of the tactic often used by the US and the UK to sit on the sidelines and not go beyond promises after pushing an ally to make some significant steps. The analyst said that the Ukrainian armed forces had lost 25 leopards during the two months of their counter-offensive. The Germans themselves are openly asking their British partners and American handlers on NATO platforms, why did you cheat us big time and not give us the opportunity to move in lockstep when transferring tanks? If we give away tanks for slaughter, then let's sink up and also do it in equal quantities. Instead, it turns out that the British and the Americans set the Germans up for their unpleasant blow, the analyst said. He said that the US is delaying the delivery of Abrams tanks, pretending there's a lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe while the British are following suit and are in no hurry either to send their Challenger 2 tanks to the theatre of military operations. As a result, the German-made Leopard tanks that were earlier delivered to Kiev, which had been in service in countries both in and out of NATO and had good value in the Middle East and Asian markets, continued to suffer irreparable losses to their reputation. However, this burden on the German defense industry hasn't encouraged the UK to step up. Mikhailov said the analyst is convinced that London will not dare to supply tanks to Ukraine ahead of its US allies and will continue to delay the inconvenient costs.