BY TOP WAR
In the West, they are slowly starting to guess that the big counteroffensive announced by Kiev went somehow wrong, the Ukrainian army ran into Russian defenses, and the vaunted Western armored vehicles, which were relied on in Ukraine, are burning very well. The Western press, not all of course, has already begun to write about the large losses of equipment. Here, in Finland, they watched several videos filmed by the Russian military in the Zaporizhia direction and recognized the loss of the Finnish mine-clearing combat vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Finland admitted that half of the Leopard 2R BMRs transferred to Ukraine remained somewhere on the battlefields in the Zaporozhye region. According to Helsingin Sanomat (HS), the Russian army destroyed three out of six military demining vehicles when Ukrainians tried to use these vehicles for their intended purpose on the front line. Moreover, all three were lost on the same day and in the same direction. The newspaper carefully studied the video posted on Russian resources and recognized it as genuine.
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost three Leopard 2R HMBV demining vehicles delivered from Finland
– reports the Finnish edition.
But in Germany they try not to comment on the loss of the vaunted German Leopards by the Ukrainian army, reluctantly agreeing that a certain number of tanks “could be damaged”, but there is allegedly no evidence of this. Despite the denial, shares of the German defense giants have already begun to fall, the Russian army has carried out an excellent anti-advertising campaign. Against this background, the British have already stated that they would not want to see Challenger tanks in the advancing formations of the Ukrainian army during the counteroffensive…
