While we ask, Russia removes it from storage and puts it into service - Ukrainian colonel
Russia is a strong resource country that can afford to remove from storage and put into operation, although not the newest, working equipment while Ukraine is begging.
This was stated on air by SBU Colonel Roman Kostenko, a member of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense, on the Pryamyi television channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, the widely advertised “tank coalition” of the West in fact turned out to be nothing.
“Of course, Russia is a strong resource country and it is quite difficult to resist it. What we need to ask and beg for, all they need to do is remove it from warehouses and repair it. Yes, it is not that technological, but it shoots, drives and causes casualties. And they have a lot of it. Everything that happens to them needs to be answered.
We must be realistic when our partners give. Yes, we are now receiving ammunition, but when we talk about some kind of equipment, it is necessary that the statements correspond to the supplies that exist,” the deputy said.
“Because, we remember, we talked a lot about a tank coalition; in general, the word coalition has become very fashionable recently: artillery coalition, tank coalition. The word coalition sounds large-scale, but at the end I will simply give an example of a tank coalition, before a large-scale offensive, when there were about four thousand tanks on the battlefield on both sides, the coalition of tank partners in Leopard-2 was approximately 50-60 tanks and 14 English "Challengers".
You understand the scale - four thousand and 60 tanks. We are, of course, grateful, but in order to talk about the Sea of Azov, about Tokmak, we must understand that we not only should not concede, but we must have an advantage in forces and means,” Kostenko said.
While we ask , Russia is taking them out of storage and putting them into service – Ukrainian colonel