The Battle for the City of Bakhmut
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Ukraine's Armoured Vehicles - What's the Difference?
In the early stages, it was all about small anti-tank weapons. The big pitched battles in the East were very much in Russia's favor because they had longer range artillery. And what they do, as you rightly say, they've been asking for a long time is tanks. Now the West has been reluctant to provide that for the reason that they are seen as offensive rather than defensive weapons. But every time new revelations have come about Russian atrocities in Kharsan, in Izjum,. plus since really for the last two or three months, this horrendous bombardment of Ukraine's critical national infrastructure. That has prompted the West to lift those inhibitions and say: We're going to give
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