Ukrainian troops will start training on Leopard tanks from Monday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said, CNN reports.

Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand released a video of the first German Leopard 2 tank being loaded onto a plane bound for Ukraine.

“Battle tanks are going to help Ukraine. Canada’s first Leopard 2 tank is on its way. Canada’s support for Ukraine is unwavering,” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday along with images of a German-made tank being loaded onto a plane.

Addressing journalists during a press conference in Kyiv, Reznikov said: “We are accumulating reserves and working to train as many personnel as possible.”

Ukraine is bracing for a possible major Russian offensive this month, but Kyiv has reservations to stop Moscow’s forces even if not all the weapons promised by the West arrive on time, Ukraine’s defense minister said on Sunday.

He told a news conference that Russia could launch a new attack in February for symbolic reasons around the anniversary of the start of the invasion on February 24, 2022, but that Moscow’s resources were not ready militarily.

But tanks are not the only weapon that Ukraine needs to defend against enemy bombings.

According to Reznikov, Ukraine needs a long-range weapon that reaches 150 kilometers, which should be “more effective and more active.” The maximum range of the current artillery provided by the West is 144 km.

The US has announced a new security package for Ukraine worth about $2.2 billion, which will include longer-range missiles for the first time in the country.

But they will not achieve the range that Ukraine is demanding, fearing that longer-range weapons, such as the ATACMS requested, would be used to strike targets in Russia, which Reznikov rejected.

“We always tell our partners that we undertake not to use weapons provided by foreign partners against the territory of Russia, but only against their units in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,” Reznikov said at a press conference in Kyiv.

Speaking about the military aid that Ukraine received, Reznikov said that they were given “almost everything” in terms of armaments, except for fighter jets, which he believes the Ukrainians will receive.

Ukraine is not a NATO member, but in this war it has become a “de facto NATO country,” he said.

“All that remains is to be accepted into the alliance by right,” added Reznikov.