According to the AP agency, 5 of the 31 American Abrams M1A1 tanks supplied by the United States were lost in the Russian attacks on the Ukrainian battlefield. That is also why they were withdrawn from the front line of battles. This was confirmed to the American agency by the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Christopher Grady, and another representative of the Pentagon, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“When you think about how the fight is going, massive armored vehicles can be compromised in an environment where unmanned aerial systems are ubiquitous,” Grady told the AP, adding that tanks remain important to Kiev.
The Ukrainian side did not comment on this information.
The Ukrainian army lost one of the Abrams in the vicinity of Avdijivka in the Donetsk region, where heavy fighting is taking place. Volunteers who work with the GeoConfirmed account, which locates the locations of the fights and also cooperates with the investigative server Bellingcat, then said that the incident https://twitter.com/giK1893/status/1764301903440105595 near the village of Berdychi.
https://twitter.com/giK1893/status/1764305534730092962 taken from a drone show an American tank that has a destroyed track, probably after hitting a mine. The Voenacher Telegram account posted footage of kamikaze drones attacking an already damaged American tank.
OSINTtechnical account https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1764311887347433858that the Ukrainian side also lost an M1150 engineering vehicle on an Abrams chassis.
Russian pro-war blogger Rybar, who has over a million followers on Telegram and is among critics of the Russian Ministry of Defense, published https://twitter.com/rybar_force/status/1783402512516522279, how the M1150 engineering vehicle on the Abrams chassis is acquired by Russian forces. Fisherman’s information is usually quite reliable.
The problem for American tanks is the deployment of “hunter drones” and “killer drones”, AP writes. It is difficult to protect tanks once they are detected by drones. Then they will either destroy them or fire more weapons at them.
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Russian troops in part of the Donetsk region managed to achieve an unusual success in the context of the current fighting. In a narrow section, they penetrated the Ukrainian defense by several kilometers in a single day.
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