With the withdrawal of Russian troops from most of Kiev Oblast, the Ukrainian army "recovered the lost land" while facing a very serious problem of defense zone. Due to the lack of air defense means by the Ukrainian army, a large number of tanks and armored vehicles were wiped out by the Russian sweeping air raids. The remaining tanks and armored vehicles were not enough to launch a frontal counterattack, so they had to be reduced to pieces, hiding the scattered armored detachments in farmhouses and buildings.
The lack of tanks, armored vehicles and the field air defense systems that accompanied their maneuvers made it impossible for the Ukrainians to organize a decent counterattack. But what puts the Ukrainians even more dangerous is that the Ukrainians east of the Dnieper River are currently besieged by Russians in Kharkiv, Samui, Zaporizhia and Luton. It is reported that about 80,000 to 140,000 Ukrainian troops here are compressed into 100,000 square kilometers east of the Dnieper River.
They desperately needed ukrainian troops west of the Dnieper river for rescue, and the lack of tanks and ground assault forces made the Ukrainians dare not act rashly, because the Russian armored groups were waiting nearby. In response to Zelenskiy's request for heavy weapons from the West in recent weeks, the United States intends to donate a batch of soviet-era tanks to Ukraine, according to media reports.
At present, there is no specific information on where these tanks will come from. However, media sources said that these tanks may come from U.S. allies, and given that countries with close ties to the United States have a certain number of Soviet-made tanks, which may include Iraq, Peru, Albania, Georgia and North Macedonia, the tanks supplied by the United States to Ukraine will likely be early models of the T-72, so the impact on the war situation will not be large.
Outside analysis believes that this is the first time that the United States has provided main battle tanks to Ukraine, although its performance is very backward, but as a political gesture, Biden wants to appease the Ukrainian government by giving tanks, and during the announcement of the supply of main battle tanks to Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliamentarian delegation is visiting Washington, and this decision may be given as a "gift" to the Ukrainian government delegation so that they can go back to "make a difference."
The analysis pointed out that although the supply of main battle tanks to Ukraine by the United States is an important signal that the United States is gradually increasing its intervention in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States will certainly try not to provoke Russia. For Russia, the united states to give tanks is an "upgrade behavior", but the extent of the upgrade is completely defined or controlled by russia, the Russian side can choose to eliminate these tanks during the ukrainian army friendship or transportation, or it can verbally warn and wait and see.
Because for the Russian side, the most critical battle at present is in the Donbass region, as long as it can successfully take the main force of the Ukrainian army east of the Dnieper River, control Kharkiv, Dnieper region, Donbass region and southern Ukraine, then Ukraine will actually be dismembered into two countries by the Russian army, and Russia can sit down and slowly negotiate with the Ukrainian government.