Ukraine Sent Its Surviving Leopard 2A6 Tanks To Help Save Avdiivka—And Quickly Lost One Of Them

"Ukrainian army lost one of its rare, and precious, Leopard 2A6 tanks outside Avdiivka in

eastern Ukraine apparently sometime this week.
The loss—which may have been the result of a malfunction that compelled the German-made Leopard 2A6’s four crew to bail out—is notable for two reasons.
First, it extends Ukraine’s unfortunate streak of Leopard 2 losses. In a little over a week, Kyiv’s army has written off at least a dozen, and perhaps 13, of its Leopard 2A4s, Leopard 2A6s and Strv 122s. The latter are super-armored Swedish variants of the Leopard 2A5.
Add the six Leopard 2s the Ukrainians lost before last week, and the army is down a quarter of its best German-made tanks. Kyiv’s foreign allies have pledged 85 Leopard 2s and, so far, delivered 71 of them.
What’s also notable is where the most recent Leopard 2A6 loss occured, and what that says about Ukraine’s war plans. The army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade is the sole user of Ukraine’s Leopard 2A6s. That a Leopard 2A6 has showed up around Avdiivka, just northwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, means all or much of the 47th Mechanized Brigade is there, too." Forbes