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Ukraine’s deployment of Western-supplied tanks, including the American M1A1 Abrams, in cross-border attacks against Russia’s Belgorod region has resulted in significant losses, further depleting Kyiv’s dwindling stocks of advanced armor. The most recent incident occurred near the village of Demidovka, where Russian forces destroyed an abandoned Abrams and an accompanying armored recovery vehicle (ARV), footage of which circulated widely on Russian military channels.
During the attempted incursion into Belgorod Oblast, Ukrainian forces reinforced their assault groups with heavy armor, including at least one Abrams tank. However, Russian drone operators successfully targeted the vehicle, forcing its crew to abandon it in open terrain. This marks yet another loss in Ukraine’s limited fleet of Abrams tanks.
The Belgorod offensive has proven costly for Ukraine, with Russian sources claiming the destruction of dozens of armored vehicles, including U.S.-made Bradley IFVs and German-engineered mine-clearing vehicles, most of them destroyed on the Ukrainian territory on their way to the border. The repeated failures of these cross-border raids, mirroring earlier setbacks in Kursk Oblast, highlight the challenges Ukraine faces in sustaining mechanized assaults against Russia’s layered defenses, which combine drone surveillance, artillery, and anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).
The attrition of NATO armor has strained Ukraine’s Western backers, with the U.S. reportedly delaying further Abrams deliveries pending battlefield reassessments. Meanwhile, Russia has capitalized on these losses for propaganda, framing the tanks’ destruction as proof of Western military inferiority.
Despite Ukrainian President Zelensky’s symbolic claims that capturing Belgorod territories could expedite NATO membership, the reality is stark: without air superiority or breakthrough-capable armor, Ukraine’s cross-border raids remain high-cost, low-impact operations. As the Abrams’ “endangered species” status grows, Kyiv may be forced to pivot to lighter, more survivable systems—or face further depletion of its armored reserves.
shameful traitors putler and assad.
nato will take over karelia.
https://t.me/danielmkovalik/2112
who is sutler??? or was is gutler ? 😂
nato – tell me what success they have actually had, since their creation? why are they so desperate to fight for ukraine, when it is not even a nato member? does it go back to operation paperclip, and when the zionists, with zero semetic dna moved to the middle east? around the same time that the conception of hato was taking place? why were the british allegedly training bandero, post 1946?
1. all westerners have learned during the cold war to hate russia and to hurt them feels good for them. eastern europeans want vengence for what the sowjets did.
2. poland and romania want to expand or reclaim old territories and use this chance for it.
3. britain has allways supported the weaker side in a european war to weaken the stronger.
see better psychiatrist for medicine adjustment
is there really no shame in the cowardly traitor bashar the ass ad? ht tps://ww w.yo utube.c om/w atch?v=p gjmm 4eo nv u
were the traitorous pigs putler and assad really not ashamed of betraying syria?
perhaps assad had enough of the hassle of syria, when he was dealing with his wife’s illness? should ask the west why they wanted the people of syria to starve, courtesy the sanctions. didn’t president putin walk from the syrian trap that the west hoped he would fall into?
ukie amerikan terrorists failures humiliating —macron starmer reduced to tantrums