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| Forbes: The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have enough spare parts to repair tanks supplied by the West |
| 2024-01-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Ukrainian army cannot effectively use tanks supplied by the West, including German Leopard 2, because due to a shortage of spare parts, it is not able to repair combat vehicles damaged in battles with the Russian Armed Forces. David Ax, a military columnist for the American edition of Forbes, wrote about this on January 22. “Ukrainians are experiencing serious problems with repairing damaged tanks and returning them to service. <…> It was difficult to find spare parts for Ukrainian Leopard 2 tanks,” he wrote. According to the observer, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost a large number of Western tanks during the summer counter-offensive attempts due to mines, drones, artillery and missiles from the Russian army. As Regnum reported, on January 17, the head of the press center of the Russian group “West,” Colonel Sergei Zybinsky, spoke about the destruction of two Leopard-2 tanks in the Kupyansk direction. According to him, one of the Western tanks was destroyed using Lancet loitering ammunition. The press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on January 15 that a solemn ceremony was held in Moscow to present valuable gifts and cash certificates to the Russian military for the destroyed Western Leopard 2 and Challenger tanks. Western equipment was knocked out in the Zaporizhia direction in the fall of 2023. Bundestag deputy and member of the parliamentary budget committee Sebastian Schaefer said on January 2 that Ukrainian troops use very few German Leopard-2 tanks of the modern A6 modification delivered to Kiev. According to him, this is due to the long repair of these combat vehicles and the lack of spare parts for them. Earlier on the same day, the Russian military destroyed a platoon of Leopard-2A6 Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks attempting to attack their positions in the Svatov direction. They used precision-guided munitions and Lancet drones to destroy German tanks. |
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