United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that no one could have imagined that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would inflict such heavy losses on the Russian Federation. About this he reported during a Senate hearing.
According to him, the Ukrainian soldiers inflicted significant losses on the Russians, and the enemy unthinkably depleted their stocks of armored vehicles.
“And now we see how Russia will re-mothball the T-54 and T-55 tanks because of the level of losses that the Ukrainians inflicted,” Austin said.
He noted that Moscow’s resources are running out, and it is increasingly faced with a lack of artillery shells and other means, which is why it is forced to ask for help from Iran and North Korea.
REFERENCE. T-54 is a Soviet medium tank. Adopted by the USSR Armed Forces in 1946, mass-produced since 1947, constantly being modernized. Since 1958, its modification was produced under the name T-55, adapted for combat operations in the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons. In 1961-1967, it was mainly replaced in production by the T-62 tank, created on its basis, but the production of the T-55 continued until 1979. Also, in a number of countries, the T-54 itself or its modernized or adapted variants were produced.
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