KYIV, Ukraine
Ukrainian fighters are looking for the support from West – to resist Russian assaults – as the help is on the way, BBC reported.
“T-72s are old tanks – this one’s the same age as me,” Bogdan, a 55-year-old Ukrainian volunteer told BBC.
“I used to drive one of these nearly 40 years ago – I can’t believe I’m doing it again. But it works. It does the job,” he said.
“But a Leopard would be better,” BBC quoted Volodymr, another member of their three-man crew, with a low chuckle as saying.
“There were very heavy losses. It’s very pitiful. It’s hard,” said Danylo, an officer in charge of repairing tanks for the 24th Mechanised Brigade was quoted as saying by BBC.
He said the current deadlock would not be broken unless foreign tanks arrived in significant numbers.
“Yes, we’ll be stuck here. We need these [Western tanks] to stop Russia’s aggression. With infantry, covered by tanks, we’ll win for sure,” he said.
“As the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns of Bakhmut and Soledar,” BBC reported.
