Ukraine Tank Battle ‘Early Summer’ Fuel Resupply ‘Difficulty’ Donbass ‘Victory and Loss’

It is expected that the battle in Ukraine will determine “win or lose” in the land battle to recapture Donbas, where it is “difficult” to secure a fuel supply route in the “early summer tank battle”.
'Yomiuri' said from London, "The old Soviet tanks currently used by the Ukrainian army are severely worn out and lack ammunition, and Western tanks have high performance in terms of artillery armor mobility and have the advantage of ammunition replenishment and repair support from Western countries in the mid- to long-term." It was reported on the 28th that in the south where the Russian army is stationed, the eastern Donbas region with little forest and the firepower of tanks for urban combat decide victory or defeat.”
Yomiuri continued, “The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense predicts that the battle with the Russian army will be most intense 'from spring to early summer', and expects 'three months' for the first German Leopard 2 to arrive in Ukraine, and India, including the holders, is in a phased progress. will be supplied with orders for new tanks rather than existing US tanks, so actual deployment will take nearly a year.”
Former Deputy Defense Minister Andrei Kartaporov, chairman of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, told state television on the 25th that the Leopard 2 was "inferior in performance" to Russia's T90 main battle tank. If sent, it could be a threat," the TASS news agency reported.
The New York Times said, "It could take months for the first Leopard to arrive on the battlefield, Abrams could take a year or more, and the tanks are far fewer than the hundreds Ukraine said it would need to defeat the Russians." 's decision to send its own tanks paved the way for 12 other European countries to send their own tanks, which military experts say is a move for heavy weapons that will eventually give the Ukrainians a shot at Russia's advantage in troop numbers and equipment."25 day reported.
Regarding the decision on the tank support agreement, “the news of the aid came the same day Ukrainian forces retreated from the small eastern town of Soledar after weeks of fierce fighting after setbacks on the battlefield.” It admitted that it was closer to besieging and capturing Bahmut.”
“The tanks promised by Berlin and Washington to help Ukraine defend towns and cities near Bakhmut from the recent Russian forces’ relentless ground-attack advance will not be delivered on time, and it could take months before actual deployment,” the New York Times reported. “It is not easy to transport to conflict zones, and Ukrainian forces must also be trained in the use of powerful Western war machines, and the Abrams tank in particular is a very complex machine that is difficult to operate and maintain.”
Yomiuri said, “Abrams is also used by the Australian, Egyptian and Iraqi armies with a 1500 horsepower engine and high attack power, and Poland signed a contract to purchase 250 units in April, so NATO’s mainstream tank introduction system will have a morale boosting effect in Ukraine.” "Unlike the In Leopard, there are ongoing concerns that the Abrams' powerful gas turbine engine requires a large amount of jet fuel, making it difficult to secure a fuel supply route and that the Ukrainian military will not be able to operate it."

The Russian army has its main forces in Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine and is strengthening its defense line, and the almost forested Donbass region in the east is scheduled for tank battles.
Zelensky's government demanded sufficient tank support for three new Ukrainian battalions, and on the 25th the United States announced initial shipments of 31 Abrams tanks and Germany 14 Leopards.

Russia's Rianovosti News Agency said on the 26th that the representative of Russia's military technical support expert group announced that it plans to improve the combat robot 'Marker' developed since 2018 to destroy Leopard and Abrams tanks and put it on the battlefield in Ukraine, Yonhap News reported. .
'Yeonhap' then released a picture of the Marker combat robot released by the Russian media 'Argumenti i Pakti' (argument and fact), saying, "It looks like a small armored vehicle with tracks or wheels." It can attack enemy tanks with anti-aircraft rockets, hit aerial targets with anti-air rockets, and shoot down enemy attack drones with laser weapons.”

The US has so far sent or promised to send more than 1 million 155mm shells to Ukraine, a significant proportion of which (less than half) came from stockpiles in Israel and South Korea, a senior US official told The New York Times earlier.
The Ukrainian army uses 90,000 shells a month, about twice the rate that the US and European countries manufacture them, US officials said on November 25 last year. Becoming a central war of attrition, Ukraine lacked ammunition for Soviet-era weapons and has largely switched to firing artillery and rounds donated by the United States and other Western allies.
Israel has consistently rejected US demands to supply arms to Ukraine, fearing damage to relations with Russia, and half of the 300,000 shells destined for Ukraine have already been shipped to Europe and will eventually arrive via Poland, Israeli and US officials told The New York Times, revealed.
"Artillery has become the most important combat weapon because the front lines are largely stationary," former White House weapons strategist Mark F. Cancian said in a new study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.