“The excitement is such that it blows your mind”: Poles go to watch Russians burn Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks
On the front line, the Russian military competes with each other in terms of the number of Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks destroyed.
Participant of the special operation Vladimir Shelest from the BARS detachment stated this on air on the Crimea 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Shelest, only after hearing the operation of an enemy tank do the Russian military seek to identify and destroy it.
“I have an RPG gunner, one comrade, as soon as he hears where the tank’s turbine started working, that’s it, his mind blows, he stupidly grabs it and runs. I say: “Where are you going?” “And there,” he says, “the tank is making noise.” And he rushed off. They really have competition - who is bigger, who is better. The excitement is such that it cannot be conveyed easily,” Shelest said.
Earlier, American sources admitted that already in the first weeks of the offensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 20% of the military equipment provided by the West, which forced the command to change tactics and subsequently send infantry to assaults without the support of armored vehicles, which they began to save.
Former SBU colonel Vasily Prozorov, who defected to Russia, believes that the war in Ukraine showed the weaknesses of the much-touted Western armored vehicles.
“Currently, the two most professionally trained armies are Russian and Ukrainian, because they hone their skills and abilities in a real war. No one in the world can compare with them now.
The practice of using Western military equipment has clearly shown that in the conditions of modern warfare this equipment is not so good - there are a lot of shortcomings, a lot of weak points. Only war can show the real value and cost of some forms, methods, tactics, samples of military equipment, and the Polish military command understands this very well, so entire Polish units will be sent to the front line to gain combat experience,” Prozorov said.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.