While Ukrainian forces train on modern Western weapons, Russian tank crews appear set to take delivery of machines driven by their fathers' - or even their grandfathers' generations. Russia, however, may be struggling to get modern war machines to the front lines, and has pulled some very, very old tanks out of deep storage, seemingly to bolster its ground forces in Ukraine. These are the tanks Ukraine has been promised from the West They were promised along with dozens of German-made Leopard 2 tanks and, later this year, American M1 Abrams tanks. Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Resnikov recently gloated in social media videos over the first big tanks sent from Europe to help his country fend off Russia's invasion, climbing aboard a British Challenger 2, part of the first batch of modern "main battle tanks" (MBTs) to be handed over to Ukraine's armed forces. Patriot air defense system to help them fend off the invasion, and there's more weaponry on the way from Europe - everything from heavy main battle tanks to machine gun ammunition. The Ukrainians will soon get an advanced U.S. On the other side of the front lines, the leaked papers suggest Russia's special forces have been decimated, as wave after wave of soldiers have been thrown into the fight with little gained in return. Recently leaked Pentagon documents appear to show Ukraine running dangerously low on the air defense rounds it has used to stop thousands of Russian rockets, missiles and exploding drones from reaching their targets. As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on toward the 15-month mark, both sides are expected to launch new offensives, and both sides have apparently suffered shortages of key weaponry.
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