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  Sun 22 Jan 2023 16.14 GMT. Russia has claimed to have made advances in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region as Nato allies continued to squabble over the potential supply of tanks to the war-torn country's defence.
  At a special international summit on Friday at the US military base in Ramstein, in south-west Germany, Berlin had stubbornly declined to take a decision on whether to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
  In a joint statement Saturday, the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia also urged Germany "To provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine now".
  
  
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  I really cannot understand why people would hold back military equipment when there’s already a war on. >
  
  Many reasons. Some equipment uses advanced technology that could be captured, studied, and copied by an enemy. Some equipment uses ammunition that is in short supply. Some equipment is complex and requires extensive training for effective operations. Some equipment is designed to be used with a system of support infrastructure that can not be easily provided. >
  
  
  Some equipment uses advanced technology that could be captured, studied, and copied by an enemy
  
  russia has built more advanced tanks that it uses on the battlefield, it just can't afford to mass produce them, it would gain very little now from capturing any, and by the time it can make use of it, the tech will have advanced beyond what it has captured, the rest seem valid points. >
  
  Talk about a run-on sentence of nonsense. Both sides have a ton of tech that would be ripe for reverse engineering.