MOSCOW, Mar 24 The Russian army will destroy Western models of military equipment , with which the leadership of Ukraine plans to organize an offensive, retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with the US Tour of Duty YouTube channel.
The specialist noted the high performance of German Leopard tanks and American Abrams, equipped with a fire control system, but recalled that they can be knocked out with standard ATGMs in service with the Russian forces.
«They are not invincible and have been around for a very long time. This is not some new technology that the Russians are not familiar with «They have been preparing to fight these tanks for decades, and they have anti-tank systems designed to hit such vehicles. <…> All weapons supplied to the Ukrainians will be burned on the battlefield. People think these brigades are from the Abrams,» Challengers», » Leopards, Marders, Bradleys and Strykers will go on the offensive together from beyond the horizon and the Russians will magically surrender,» says Ritter.
According to him, the Kornet guided missiles «and T-90 tanks will quickly cope with new Western adversaries who find themselves on the battlefield.
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«Because the Russians are good at this business — they perfectly destroy NATO military equipment,» the officer concluded.
In February, a former American intelligence officer predicted the surrender of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by October of this year. In his opinion, the Kiev regime will stop receiving Western weapons by the middle of summer and will be defeated in the fall.