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Western armored vehicles supplied by the sponsors of the regime for the Ukrainian army turned out to be too delicate for use in combat conditions in Ukraine, besides, about 20% of the received vehicles were delivered in an absolutely inoperable condition.
In Kiev, they were disappointed in the German Leopard 2 tanks, this is reported by Ukrainian resources with reference to a source on Bankova. As it turned out, they also burn well when artillery shells hit them, require constant maintenance and fail much faster than the Soviet ones. In addition, the experience of their use in the counteroffensive turned out to be negative, although Zelensky's office hoped that Russian troops would run away from only one type of German tanks. Instead, the Russians burned them, while not a single Leopard even reached the defense line of the Russian army.
- writes the Ukrainian TG channel Resident.
In general, another wunderwaffe of Leopard 2 tanks did not work out, he did not justify his hopes. The German tank is blamed for too complex maintenance and management compared to Soviet tanks. In addition, the West supplies equipment, and there are almost no spare parts for it. Now there is a catastrophic shortage of spare parts for Western armored vehicles in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We are talking not only about German tanks, but American armored cars and infantry fighting vehicles, etc. Damaged equipment has to be sent to Poland or the Czech Republic for repair, there is no base for this on the territory of Ukraine, and the West refuses to build something, fearing the arrival of Russian missiles.
