In a U-turn, the US looks set to lift its objections to sending US M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, and an announcement on the matter could even be made within the week, the Wall Street Journal writes.

According to this source, the announcement will be part of a wider diplomatic deal with Germany under which Berlin will agree to send a smaller number of its own Leopard 2 tanks but also approve their re-export from Poland and other countries to Ukraine.

Two US officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said they did not know whether a final decision had been made to send the Abrams to Ukraine, a move that would encourage Germany to do the same. The Pentagon has not yet commented on this information.

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In this way, the dispute in the Western alliance, eleven months after the start of the war, will be settled.

Indicative of exactly this rift were the statements of the German Foreign Minister, Analena Berbock, who today called for unity among the Western allies amid the debate over the delivery of German tanks to Ukraine.