"The military hardware that has entered into service with the Ukrainian Army, [including the US-made M1 Abrams tanks], is specifically designed to run in a tropical climate and it should be kept away from the cold. Have you noticed that the Abrams tanks do not appear on the battlefield? They are suitable neither for winter nor for swamps. They have rubber rollers and tracks, which is why they glide on the ice. While the Russian T-90 tanks break the ice and are capable of moving in any area, the M1s cannot do so because they slide," the Russian expert said.
"The knobs in the guns will stop working, the tanks and combat vehicles will stop starting, and the weapons that the West supplied to Kiev will stop firing," Matviychuk said, adding that the Ukrainians had failed to learn lessons from last winter.
"As far as I understand, the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Ukrainian Army is complicated, with many soldiers receiving some strange vaccinations from Western doctors," the expert said. Commenting on the fact that an array of Ukrainian troops suffer from measles, he hinted that doctors may be conducting biological experiments on these soldiers.
He said that to tackle the issue, it’s necessary to carry out special measures against the vermin, which stipulate withdrawing Ukrainian soldiers from trenches or dugouts on a temporary basis. “This is quite problematic” given the deployment of Russian drones over Ukrainian positions, according to the expert.