now we live in warsaw, it is a very beautiful city, but kyiv is more beautiful for me. one day, russia attacked my country, but we were lucky and my mother and i went to poland. i like poland, but i want to go home. i have a lot of friends in kindergarten. i really want to go home. and soon i 'll be back i 'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i'll be back i 'll be back

the blitzkrieg of the russians in the north was the first one we encountered. it was a reconnaissance that failed thanks to such fearless soldiers. we took up the defense on the road as border guard vyacheslav, the call-sign legate , his unit took part in the heroic defense and liberation of sumy region and gave the muscovites a considerable amount of orcs sitting on these battleships and bmws, they were destroyed column after column, the merchants, well done, tried their best, glory to the heroes, glory to ukraine in the war between russia and ukraine, the two armies have already lost hundreds of tanks, these significant losses, as well as the vulnerability of combat vehicles to anti-tank weapons made many people wonder if there is any future for a tank on the battlefield. today, donbass realities will tell about ukrainian tankers

who hold back the advance of the russian army, and we will also try to understand why tanks remain an indispensable piece of equipment, especially for an army advancing a few tens of kilometers to the front line. tank crew of the third of a separate tank brigade, the other day i returned from scratch here they repair equipment and train , i still had experience in the anti-terrorist operation since i was 15-16 years old, the difference is big, before the enemy, we could

not even seeing the coordinates, they worked from closed positions, of course, and this is how we work here. but there were also cases when the enemy came out in combat groups at a distance of 100-200 m. of course, this was the first time for me, and to say that we were scared , we could not say that it was a check because it was not there was time to be afraid, we had to work, gunner serhiy and the commander of a tank with the callsign landing will remember their first battle for the rest of their lives, they went to serve after february 24, they say, in fact, they did not have time to complete combat coordination, as they already had to help the infantry smashing two russian columns at once with nine bmp-3s each and two tanks rolled out to the position

worked out according to the coordinates they gave us, we rolled back and hid well behind the local farm when i returned after a minute and a half back seeing the whole column coming behind us 120 125 meters away , the enemy gave the command to the gunner from behind, the gunner from the first gunner already with the first shot of the gun destroyed the bmp-3 with the second shots of the gun , they also hit the bmp-3 as i was already hiding with an accumulator projectile , this one there literally no one remained alive from of these crews, we had a problem, the

gun jammed a little, the machine gun was reloaded once again, we did it manually, we also hit the support roller 3, it also this bmpt 3 also failed, and then the tank rolled up. he fell out of line, there was no longer any possibility, well, we decided to retreat, we retreated behind the farm, we went further through the fields to the position we were engaged in before, there was a tank battle , but in that case we played in advance and when we struck fragmentary with a high-explosive shot, we knocked out his system. he

couldn't immediately restart the enemy's system , so soon there was a minute of time . that period says let's push the muscovite shouts well we are on time the tank commander is standing everywhere but don't go he says we also need people so that there is an exchange fund the crew controls the soviet t-72 on the same serhiy fought in the first years of the war in donbas and here the tank commander had to retrain with the 164, on which he served during the 1968 soviet union. well, i'm

a little bit older, and they are a little bit younger. well, nothing. all the crew of those people who surround us, who, i didn't come here because of the draft, i came here as volunteers, it depends on the range, which object we want to hit. accordingly, we choose a ballistic charge for ourselves, we need to put a fragmentation charge, we need to put an

armor-piercing cumulative one on already in russian the equipment already has 4 types of ammunition there, even 5, which of course is much better, but i think we will give it to the council with the three that we have to the right of me, eh, between the commander and more projectiles enter through the cassette lifting mechanisms when you press one button ugh, it is all in automatic mode and feeds and charges for the gunner, as well as for the commander, the main thing is to find the target was that they failed , the cassette lifting mechanism happens that the

shutter wedge refuses eh it’s just closed er after shot after shot and it can't open, we're already there, uh, we're trying. let's say that in manual mode, if there's time and depending on the circumstances, we can also in manual mode. ah, and in odessa, an educated person will find soviet-era equipment, the equipment is old, it has already used up its resources, you can say, but uh, by the forces of the crew, by the forces of repair teams, it is constantly repairing, we have to, uh, various defects, breakdowns, and so on

i would like it, of course, as a new technique, it works really well, but uh, but today the situation is what we have, what we have, uh, the main thing is that people are motivated, we repair and go further in the slaughterhouse, why don't we stop before the invasion by the main battle tank of the ukrainian army there was a t-64 in various modifications of the t-72. they were also used. they were assembled into an operational team. gas turbine t-80s were in service with the paratroopers and marines at the beginning of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine according to the oryx bolt project. lost 198 tanks confirmed by photos or videos in the command of the ground forces stated that the ukrainian army has -4 hundred tanks, that is, part of the tanks eh cannot be repaired, these are the titans that

burned down these are the tanks in which the ammunition was detonated and the turret hull was destroyed well, but there are titans which disabled and which have already been repaired or are being repaired at e-e enterprises or on the territory of ukraine or even outside of ukraine, it should also be taken into account that ukraine received more than 2,500 tanks as e-e trophies and i understand that no less than one and a half hundred tons ukrainian tankers successfully exploit and crush the russian invaders with their former weapons and it is not only the t- 72b , it is also the t-72 b3 and the t-80b and the t-80b. this is evident from the way they

conduct offensive actions, they do not spare their equipment in any way, they go to the front line , er, they beat it up, they just leave it, does it drive, can it perform its combat tasks, they are not interested in it and they leave it they just run away, so what can be said about the russians, it doesn’t matter what kind of tank they have, i always tell the personnel let them have good tanks, summer, but what matters is who is sitting in these tanks and whether there is motivation in the personnel of the russian federation, the so-called orcs, if they are not motivated, they are not if they want to fight, it doesn't matter, let there be 90 and 72bz-3 there and everything in the world is the latest, but if a person sits in a car who does not know how to use or who has not learned the benefits of tanks, and judging by experience, they pull toilets and steal women's underwear

underwear, i want to say that there are not many professionals among them, to put it mildly, but the professionalism of our tankers has already been proven on all front lines and repeatedly in this war, all armored vehicles, especially tanks, are constantly being hunted by fighters with anti-tank video launch systems of missiles that hit dozens of armor tanks are constantly monitored by drones from a height, adjusting the artillery fire from which tanks suffer the most, because some experts have the impression that tanks on the battlefield are doomed believe that they should be replaced with other weapons. serhiy berezutsky is convinced that a tank is irreplaceable, if you are directly in the ranks of the infantry, then one way or another you are the number one target, more priority than the infantry that you support, because the tank is a source

of increased danger for the enemy and the hunt for it begins with everything it is only possible to conduct analogies, we need a truck to bring the metal there and they tell us why we will give you 100 bicycles that is, this question is to a certain extent common sense, there are tasks that can to decide only tanks and no drones or atgms, it is not to replace, of course, tanks are critical for combat operations on land, this will continue to be the case in the west, this can be seen at the recent eurosator arms exhibition, two new tanks were presented, the third is not coming from great britain, the united states is considering the fourth, four completely new tanks will potentially appear on the market in the next 5-10 years. russia was developing the t-14 armata family. who knows where this

will lead? answer how to maneuver on a deadly battlefield without mobile and protected firepower, now it is a tank it is believed that in the future it may be robotic systems, the key here is the interaction of units, you cannot allow the infantry to set up ambushes, suppress their actions with artillery, and as far as i am concerned, the russians were not competent in such during the first phase of the russian invasion, it was the tanks that were the main striking force for the advance of multi-kilometer columns without reconnaissance, artillery support and coordination, as well as thanks to ukrainian defense tactics about this use of tanks, the russian military forgot that in the russian doctrine, tanks are an important element of the maneuver of the united armies, it assumes that armor

is created to advance on the battlefield to enable artillery to work, tanks are important, but not as much as artillery. they usually practice like this so-called fire bags for the enemy's armored vehicles or conduct close reconnaissance by force so that the opponent reveals his firing points so that artillery works on them and similar things, therefore they are important for for the artillery to do its job ukraine, the battles in ukraine showed the vulnerability of russian armor to anti-tank missiles such as the javelin, which can attack a tank, it has a more vulnerable place on top of the turret , where the armor is very light. and in the case of any other weapon the technique must be survivable and whenever there is a threat whether it is an artillery weapon or

a tank or a soldier by himself and the threat must be identified and eliminated sure right now in the russians are working very hard to counter javalin british and german anti-tank weapons, which are very skillfully used by the ukrainian military, the russians are currently inventing how to include tactics on the battlefield to protect tanks and make them less vulnerable in ukraine, in this video, a russian tank is moving near the front line, an explosion is a hit in the side from the anti-tank missile system, after a few seconds another one, this is already a 122-millimeter stud shell, after driving a little more, the tank stops, the entire crew leaves the car, otherwise , after detonation by two russian mines the military survivors are followed by an anti-tank missile, usually if there was no detonation or

a set, then the crew, at least one of the crew members is able to leave the car on his own, he can provide assistance to his crewmates in order to evacuate the wounded or the injured and in such cases, a lot depends on experience, first, experience, and what, how, well, interactions . right here we all live together, the three of us are on this already , we have to work like this, russia in the war against ukraine most actively uses t-72 tanks of soviet production and its later

russian modifications, a little less t-80 combat vehicles, according to the oryx project, the russian federation lost 789 tanks, including the pride of russia's defense industry, the new t-90m tank, a breakthrough. the ministry of defense of ukraine calls the number almost twice as large, over one and a half thousand tanks, one and a half thousand tanks, or even 1,700 or 1,800 that were modernized to of the t-72b3 level, at least 40% have already been lost. of them, probably about 90 machines have been lost as trophies for our armed forces and t-80vm tanks - these are the ones that have been modernized, this is up to 120 machines, again, more than half of them have already lost, and 15 units were transferred to us as trophies of combat-capable ones, taking into account the t-90a there and the

fact that they can now repair the t-80b. well, a maximum of 800 units. well, a maximum of 1,000. there are machines that need to be restored and they can going funds with the basis of the production of a new car is different the matter is that it is possible to restore it faster than to do it from scratch, this is a question of the funds that russia is able to provide for the restoration of tanks, it has been several weeks since the russian army began to use the t-62 in ukraine, their production in the ussr was stopped back in the 70s, a 115 mm gun is unlikely will it break through modern tanks, but even in spite of this it can strengthen the invasion troops because it remains mobile, these tanks no longer have stabilizers, that is, they have to fire not from the east, and from a stop they are very inferior in terms of armor

protection well, once again, they stood in the open air for many years, 30-40-50 years. this is what started them up is evidence that the machines simply become engines on the march. that is, it is not even a palliative, but to some extent already that is, there is nowhere to take more suitable tanks , mykola salamakha believes that the ukrainian army is now equipped with approximately 80% tanks. this is taking into account the fact that after the invasion, new tanks were deployed, for which tanks were often deconserved from storage , and ukraine also received several dozen tanks from the czech republic and about 240 from poland, this last one was taken from regular parts, so 200 tanks

can be said to be a serious loss, but as you know, poland is buying 250 abrams, and i think 250 abrams instead of 200 old russian tanks is a good idea, the first abrams will arrive this year in the next few years we should have the first tank units in the abrams-polish army but until they are ready for battle i think a year or two let time always be in the top three countries if we talk about support with weapons and training of the ukrainian army and not only the army, why are we doing this, because we believe that ukraine is of crucial importance for the security of poland, ukraine is free from russia, secondly, we know what it is like to be under moscow's boot, that's why we support any country that fights for freedom, as yulia says in sebek, ukraine mostly received the old export version of the t-72 from poland, but there are several dozen tanks

that were modernized for the polish army. all are equipped with dynamic protection and have , let’s say, the same degree of protection in relation to the rest of the indicators, then we improve it by installing a more modern sight. well, if the machine enters the first modification, that is, we can reduce it to one type so that there is an understanding . converters of the third generation, but there is a question of the speed of supply of these machines for the assembly of units and the speed of providing these products with supply ukraine has some questions here, so if possible, an insert. i always answered such questions, what do you have in a combat-ready condition, refueling with loaded

ammunition, and what are you ready to operate at the moment, that is, everything depends on what the personnel is prepared for and in what technical condition where each specific machine is located, experts believe that there are almost no t-72s left in europe if it is possible to negotiate and buy out a contract for one of the african countries, it is more than a hundred, otherwise tens slovenia, instead of 30 t-72, i want to get the same number of leopards. germany offered 15 german tanks instead of those that were given to ukraine . the poles asked for it. the germans do not like to sell or give tanks somewhere to the east. that is why the slovaks have problems and they wanted only a few tanks from germany and poland also has to get some german tanks as always there are some problems so far i don't see the possibility of using leopard we will wait for abrams and

in the future maybe some other tanks poland is also thinking about the production of korean tanks or the purchase of some korean tanks and production in the future, according to french president emmanuel macron, there is an almost official agreement in the west not to supply ukraine with modern planes and tanks, for example, germany previously prohibited spain from handing over leopards, but it is quite possible that kiev will still need them to prepare crews to end the war - it is weeks infrastructure and repairmen months to build new tanks from scratch even longer, theoretically, there are tanks that can be shared, it depends on the postponement of the state until possible of a major war, how significant do they consider the risk of a large-scale war, because if they believe that it will not happen until the moment when these tanks

are replaced, then they can find a way to transfer them to ukraine in general, in europe, the stocks have greatly decreased, for example, scandinavian countries used to operate with hundreds of tanks, and now each has from 50 to a hundred years ago, each transferred machine is a potentially significant loss for them of foreign production, well , even abrams leopard everything is possible everything can be discussed with understanding there is needed the immediate complex of admiration for their operation is, first of all, a very elementary change in the staff because four men crew three men crew is the training of the personnel is the line of 120 mm ammunition - this is also necessary it is necessarily as needed well and in the end logistical support is transportation of these machines, because the weight is 55-60 tons, this is a completely different trawl for transportation

. to do literally in a day or two , and obviously the ukrainian army, which plans to advance in some directions in the future, is already doing this. tanks will remain an urgent need. the level of losses primarily depends on those operations that take place in the offensive and in the defense. the losses are completely different, that is, to predict the level of losses in the future taking into account the level of losses in the past, military science incorrectly formulates the losses of the attacker in relation to the losses of the defending party, it is three to one if the defense is

correctly constructed in the engineering plan by means of fire - it's three to one, the very role of tanks - it's a fist, a shock fist - counteroffensive, but of course without the support of artillery counteroffensives are impossible, i would like to first of all increase the number of artillery on our front line well, we are very dependent on this today, but ammunition on time and secondary artillery is standing tanks and infantry infantry without tanks nowhere tanks without infantry also nowhere offensive well it will be because the truth is behind us because there is no let's say there is a desire let's say from restore historical justice when muscovites we have not been allowed to live peacefully for more than 300 years, so as not to pass

this war on to future generations. we want all children, from small to large, to live peacefully in ukraine in peace and for peace to come to us with victory. ukraine still lacks weapons and equipment in order to completely stop the advance of the russian army, tanks are obviously not in the first place in the needs of the armed forces , but they are definitely not the last, and in general, for a successful defense or offensive, the troops need everything in a complex and without a sufficient number of combat cars by the ukrainian military. it will probably be difficult to liberate the territories captured by russia. these were the realities of donbas. see

you soon. greetings, dear viewers. during the next hour of television, we will analyze the most important events on the espresso tv channel. of course , we are talking about the conclusion of the madrid nato summit. weapons, and we understand that with joint forces, well, first of all, of course, thanks to the heroism of our military, we managed to help the russians show the so-called good will. of course, i'm being ironic. and we understand how to get off the same snake island from the other side