"As for the Abrams tanks, you can see them [Ukrainian command] fearing to let the tanks appear on the battlefield because they are afraid that we will intercept them, and that they will be unable to move through the mud. The result is clear. They [Ukrainian forces] suffered huge losses in men and materiel, while the Russian advance on various areas," Matviychuk said, in an apparent nod to Kiev's botched counteroffensive.
"I believe that the Americans, for example, provided the Kiev regime with the military hardware that they don’t need themselves. They rubbed their hands, saying that that they had delivered it to Ukraine, where it would be utilized and they would not have to pay a recycling fee," per Matviychuk.
When asked how it happened that Washington sent expensive weapons to Kiev without mapping out a maintenance plan, Matviychuk explained that the Pentagon "initially planned to deploy the so-called service system in Poland, a scenario that was finally scrapped after the Poles quarreled with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky" over the grain supplies.