Former FSB officer, ex-leader of the Donbass separatists Igor Strelkov (Girkin) commented on Washington’s decision to send 31 tanks M1 Abrams for the Russian media.
“Unfortunately, enemy armored vehicles, especially considering that it will surely be transferred in the best condition, exceeds in many parameters the technique that is now in our troops,” Strelkov said.
According to the former FSB officer, if Ukrainians “get the opportunity to maintain this kind of group, then, perhaps, they will be able to create an actually a whole tank army. And our troops will fight them extremely difficult, especially considering that we have for the front The T-62 had already gone from the reserve, which had long been withdrawn from weapons not only in the Russian Federation, but even in the USSR. “