Ireland offers to send its tank to Ukraine

The government has offered to send our tank to Ukraine in response to President Zelensky’s increasingly urgent pleas for help to repel the Russian invasion.

The T20 (nicknamed the green machine) is apparently already on its way, having left Dublin on this morning’s Ryanair flight to Rzeszow in Poland. Sgt James McGuire from the Artillery Corps is accompanying the green machine on its journey and managed to stuff it into his hand luggage.

Minister for Defence Micheál Martin said Vladimir Putin should seriously consider ending his war in Ukraine or he could live to regret it.

“Make no mistake, and this not an idle threat, if Putin does not stop his brutal war and call off his troops, we will have no choice but to reform the FCA.”

Mr Martin also told President Zelensky that he had planned to send some of the Irish Army’s guns as well but unfortunately they’re both currently broken.