Russia turns Ukraine’s Abrams tanks to SCRAP — only 5 remain
Russia turns Ukraine’s Abrams tanks to SCRAP — only 5 remain
Russian forces have destroyed 26 out of the 31 Abrams tanks supplied to Ukraine by the US, according to Sputnik's estimates.
▪In January 2023, then-US President Joe Biden announced the delivery of 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
▪The first of these tanks was reportedly destroyed by fighters of the Tsentr Group of Forces on February 26, 2024, in the Avdeyevka sector.
Russian forces have a track record of turning NATO’s most prized armor into scrap metal.
Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Maxim Buyakevich, emphasized at the 2024 OSCE Permanent Council meeting that "over-hyped NATO military equipment burns under the pressure of Russian weapons."
"Take, for instance, the much-praised American Abrams tanks: two-thirds of the already delivered tanks have been destroyed, despite the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' command only rarely uses them in action," Buyakevich noted in September.
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