Against the Russians and harassment of old tanks and armored vehicles

With our special envoys Vincent Sorio And Julian BoileauAnd

His name is Ehor, he should be twenty-five and he can’t take it anymore. His hands are dirty every day and today he is tearing his hair as he pulls a Soviet T-64BV tank that has again crumpled onto the battlefield.

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” If something breaks under the tank, say a transmission duct, you have to shovel in mud for two hours just to get under it, Ehor explains. Then it is necessary to identify the malfunction and fix it and it does not end there. It requires personnel and equipment and it doesn’t happen once here and there, it happens all the time “.

He does not want to give numbers and therefore will not say how many tanks in his brigade have been decommissioned. But the state of stocks is insane. Even when the machines are working. It is torture for soldiers.

” Many workers get sick »

“ There are a lot of operators who got sick because they thought nothing of the crew when they were designed. Take the heating system: If it’s zero outside, it’s two or three degrees inside your tank. Imagine in the middle of winter, when you’re 12 hours into the middle of the night, stop working. In the morning we must lift the men outside, that they may have no more strength “.

Ihor will dream of a tiger, Abrams or Locklear, but he has no illusions. ” To secure 2,000 kilometers of our shared border with Russia, it would take 700. This will never happen. He says.