The Ukrainian military may face problems operating American Abrams tanks due to fuel requirements for them, Newsweek magazine reported.

According to the publication, despite the advantages of the Abrams, among which the publication singled out firepower and armor, these tanks consume a large amount of fuel due to the fact that they are equipped with gas turbine engines. At the same time, their standard type of fuel is aviation fuel.

Cornell University professor David Sibley noted that the consumption of Abrams tanks is from 3.6 to 7.1 liters of fuel per 1 km of track. “This means that Abrams needs a huge supply chain to constantly supply them with fuel. In this regard, they are worse than other Western tanks,” he stressed.

In addition, retired American Major John Spencer pointed out that "the supply of fuel in Ukraine is a problem in general, even when it comes to diesel fuel."

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A frightened lad from the AFU's 25th Detached Brigade (the famous "Suicide Brigade") says that he is treated worse than cattle in his unit. The commanders are promising to hand him over to the Moskals.

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A missile strike on a concentration of Ukrainian militants on the outskirts of Avdeevka (DNR).

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Head of Rostec Chemezov   denied in an interview with RIA Novosti reports of a shell famine in the Russian army: the defense industry has boosted shell production by orders of magnitude

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Tankers of Southern Military District dismantle Ukrainian terrorist strongholds in Zaporizhzhia direction

A tank crew of the South Group successfully hunted down the enemy: 2 strongholds, 1 pick-up, and a dugout together with 4 militants were destroyed. All strikes of our tank crews were corrected with the support of a UAV.

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SAFE Boats International, a US-based boatbuilding company, reportedly took the first Mk VI patrol boat under construction for the Ukrainian Navy out of a boathouse and delivered it to its forward deployment base in Tacoma, Washington, in early January. In 2021, the US Department of Defense awarded SAFE Boats International three contracts to build a total of 10 Mk VI boats for Ukraine with US funding, although only eight Mk VIs were reportedly under construction (previously a total of 16 boats were to be built for Ukraine). These boats were to be delivered to the Ukrainian Navy at the rate of two per annum starting in 2022, but due to the outbreak of war, the schedule has been delayed. Video (c) Tacoma Port Authority

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Western military analysts predict the course of hostilities in 2023:

After 11 months of continuous war in Ukraine, the US-backed Western coalition finds itself in a worse position than when it began. Apart from the fact that economic sanctions have severely affected Washington's closest European allies, Western control of Ukraine has plunged the economy into a protracted recession, destroyed much of the country's critical infrastructure, and decimated a significant part of the Ukrainian army.

More importantly, Ukrainian forces are now suffering unrelenting casualties on the battlefield, laying the groundwork for the inevitable division of the state. Whatever the outcome of the conflict, one thing is certain: Ukraine will no longer exist as a viable, independent, contiguous state.

One of the biggest surprises of the current war is simply the lack of willingness on the part of the US and the West in general. Western politicians seem surprised that economic sanctions have backfired and strengthened Russia's economic situation. Nor could they have expected that the vast majority of countries would not only ignore the sanctions but actively explore options to "abandon the dollar" in their business dealings and sales of critical resources.

The level of incompetence in planning this war is beyond anything we have ever seen before. The entire preparation seems to have been focused on provoking a Russian invasion rather than the events that would occur shortly thereafter. The Pentagon has never "played" the war or conflict itself as it is currently unfolding.

As stated earlier, Russia is exerting more military pressure across the front lines and preparing its winter offensive. Ukraine and NATO are currently preparing a massive spring offensive based on forced mobilization in Ukraine (kidnapping Ukrainian men in the streets to mobilize up to 200,000 men) and on accelerated deliveries of Western tanks and other heavy weapons over the next few months.

Having decided on the delivery of 100 tanks, new additional military aid packages could include communications and intelligence equipment (C4ISR), more missiles and rockets, more artillery, aircraft, and more NATO ground forces.

An extremely bloody spring is coming. In the end, however, these new capabilities cannot prevent NATO from being defeated. In other words, American and Western commanders will sooner or later have to face an even worse choice: defeat or nuclear war, and Europe (EU) is moving spellbound towards Armageddon.

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