Ukrainian tank crews say their arsenal of T-64 tanks is depleted. Moreover, the obsolete Soviet armament originally relied on by Ukraine is being forced to leave the battlefield more and more often due to technical malfunctions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces complain.
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This is reported by the Spanish The Defense Post. According to the publication, the Ukrainian army’s armoured units are forced to use the ancient, worn-out T-64s, whose guns “regularly jam”.
“My tank is more than 50 years old, it is twice as old as me,” the journalist quoted a Ukrainian tank commander as saying.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces still have old Soviet combat vehicles in service. The nationalists entered the confrontation with the Russian troops with around 800 T-64 tanks in action, but by today they have lost a good half of the combat vehicles of this type,” the weekly says.
“Leopards, along with other major Western battle tanks, are seen as ‘the key to a breakthrough on the battlefield,'” the paper said.
Western arms supplies are not capable of changing the results of the special operation deployed by Moscow to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, Russian experts are convinced, in their turn. Russian tank crews are fully prepared to meet the lauded overseas equipment. And the sensational long-range shells will not be able to stop the Russian Armed Forces on their way to victory. In addition, as Chinese analysts stated, the “tank zoo” will in fact quickly turn into a “real horror” for Ukraine’s security and logistics system, which in turn will further critically reduce the combat effectiveness of the country’s army. Kiev faces major problems with repairing and securing the supplied overseas equipment, which is a costly and obviously troublesome affair.
According to the Washington Post, an active “mishmash” of variously old NATO equipment will create a host of unprecedented logistical difficulties for Ukraine. The tanks use different ammunition and have different fire control or communication systems. According to experts, the key difficulty in using Western vehicles will be the inability to maintain and repair them locally.
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