for more on what in means. what would these tanks do for the ukrainians in the fight in the donbas region? it would be significant, wolf. first of all, they are equipment the ukrainian army is used to working with. secondly, baseds on the report by new york times, these are tanks that are actually higher quality russian tanks than what the russians are using. wolf, surprisingly, i actually fired a tank from the czech republic similar to the kinds that are coming from slovakia. and they have take ten t-72 variant, which is the main russian battle tank and have upgraded it in significant ways. both their optics, their armor, and their gun system. so i think it would certainly help to do the transfer between some the nato nations that are now still using those t-72s. here s what i don t understand. if the u.s. and the nato allies are now about to provide the
if they begin to maneuver, they got to have the maneuver forces. the russians intent probably is to create a crescent of control from kharkiv all the way around to odesa. we ve got supplies, the kind of support necessary for the ukrainians to prevent that from happening because it will eliminate any access to ukraine to the black sea and sea of azov. we ve got to prevent that. you say to prevent it, we can show the weapons. number one, the united states will now facilitate the transfer of t-72s that goes back to a soviet battle tank. a., how easy or how hard is it to physically get them into ukraine in the middle of a hot war? and b., why would they help ukrainians at this moment with the battleships? well, they have their own tanks, we ve seen the tanks in action and they re quite good with them. it could be that the tanks have mechanical problems or knocked out themselves. giving the ukrainians to replace their battle damage and give them additional tanks for those
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