Western tanks are arriving while Russia dusts off 70-year-old museum pieces. But although Ukraine has the quality, experts say Moscow has the upper hand in quantity and warn "there's no such thing as a tank that can't be killed".
2024 or just a gop victory, that washington will puft away for support for this war. by biden saying yes, for instance, to the f-16s now, that leaves ukraine in a better position in the long term. for instance, if the battle gets frozen after this later ukrainian offensive, ukraine will always have those f-16s if russia tries to attack the larger country and seize it again because if you might remember from the second gulf war, those were f-16-style jets against soviet t-72-style tanks, the kinda russia is using now, and the f-16s won every time. trussia s infringement says decisions made at the g7 summit are designed to deter russia and china. do these shows of western unity really in some ways push china and russia closer together? that has been the worry of
we re enchanted. they are not for us. russia s push for the remaining ukrainian controlled highrises around them has not relented despite recent successes taking ground north and south of the meat grinder town. in a field hospital nearby, troops concussed by heavy russian shelling inside bakhmut. how is the fighting compared to kherson and other places? this 47-year-old former warehouse manager tells us bakhmut is his hardest battle yet. it is hell, he says. how is the morale at the front line? he pauses. sighs. and whispers. it is hard. tanks too are getting chewed up in the bakhmut meat grinder. this soviet era t-72 blasted by shelling. repairs made in hedge rows because workshops are getting
oh, that boom, boom, boom, is that on us, one says. oh, no, the other jokes, we re enchanted, they re not for us. russia s push for the remaining ukrainian-controlled high-rises around them has not relented despite recent successes taking ground north and south of the meat grinder town. in a field hospital nearby, troops concussed by heavy russian shelling inside bakhmut. how was the fight in bakhmut compared to other places? call sign white, a 47-year-old former warehouse manager, tells us bakhmut is his hardest battle yet. it s hell, he says. how is the morale at the front line? he pauses, sighs, and whispers, it s hard. tanks, too, are getting chewed up in the bakhmut meat grinder. this soviet-era t-72 blasted by
but in the region that has the same name right across the river from that area, so he was pretty close to the ukrainian lines right there, and he s definitely trying to copy a bit of what zelinsky has been doing all this time. let s get a look at some of these tanks because this is one of the craziest things to me, this t 55 tank. being refurbished for use. in this invasion in 2023. this was rolled out in the 19 forties. that s right. this is one of stalin s favorite tanks, in fact, over 100,000 to 55 have been produced throughout the history of this particular tank , and they re being used all over the world. but the soviets and then after them, the russians have used them to great effect. they replaced them with a bunch of tanks like the t 72 in 1972 and the t, 80 and 1976. but these are all cold war era tanks, the closest one in time. to our period right now is the t 90, and that one has a lot of capabilities that the west has emulated in some respects and