According to US Defense Department estimates, the Russian military has already lost half of its main battle tanks in its offensive war against Ukraine. “It is likely that half of the Russian military’s main stockpile of tanks has been “destroyed or confiscated by Ukraine,” Celeste Wallander, undersecretary for international security affairs at the US Department of Defense, said on Friday.
During an online event hosted by the Center for a New American Security think tank, Wallander gave no further information on the number of tanks seized and destroyed by US estimates. Ukraine will receive battle tanks from various Western allies in the coming weeks.
Britain has promised Kiev to deliver Challenger 2 main battle tanks in March. In a coalition with other countries, Germany plans to deliver a battalion of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine by April. The US has also committed a battalion of 31 Abrams main battle tanks. However, your delivery will probably take much longer.
Moscow wants to modernize or build thousands of tanks
Russia has already reacted to the prospect of tank deliveries from the West to Ukraine: former Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev promised the construction and modernization of thousands of tanks. “As we know, our enemy is begging for planes, missiles and tanks abroad,” the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council said during a visit to a tank factory in the Siberian city of Omsk. “It is clear that in this case it is normal for us to increase the production of various types of weapons and military equipment, including modern tanks,” said Medvedev.
Source: Krone
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