Vladimir Putin met Xi Jinping in Beijing and warned the US after it provided Ukraine with long-range missiles. Meanwhile, a Russian blogger has claimed Ukraine has made a 'breakthrough' across a key river. And there are concerns about possible 'sabotage' in Scandinavia.
Military analyst Sean Bell says: I will aim to address both of these questions in this one answer.In the first phase of the Ukraine conflict, Russia launched waves of attacks supported by their tanks.The early consignments of Western military support focused on anti-tank weapons such as NLAWS, which proved very effective at destroying Russian tanks. Indeed, according to Oryx 2,082 Russian tanks have been destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured since the start of the war last February.
The T-62 and T-64 tanks are still capable, but as they are around 60 years old, they lack much of the technology - such as weapon aiming or sighting systems - available in modern tanks.So, although donated Western tanks will not arrive in Ukraine in significant volumes - current expectation is that around 300 tanks will have been donated by the year's end - the technology far exceeds that available to Russian forces.
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