"It's a completely different technique than the Soviet-type tanks, it's like someone transferring from a Trabant to a Mercedes," the Hungarian colonel pointed out.

István Resperger was the guest of the Exclusive show on ATV's You Tube channel. The colonel first spoke about the Ukrainian-Russian war situation, in which he said: Bahmut, which is at the center of the current clashes, only receives supplies from one place - after the fall of Soledar in the north - so the Russians should now focus on cutting off the other route as well. If this succeeds and the city falls, they can go towards Kramatorsk, but it won't be easy, he warned. since the countryside in this part of the Donbass is hilly,

and the 250-meter difference in level can significantly help the Ukrainians.

Resperger also said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's claim that everything is thanks to Wagner is an exaggeration, but it is a fact that the mercenary army plays a serious role in the battles in Donbass, where conscripts from prisons are sent forward, and after them, well-equipped, professional mercenaries carry out military operations .

7-800 dead and 2,500-3,000 wounded on both sides"

said the colonel, speaking about the losses. The program also covered the news of the week: the sending of the German Leopards to Ukraine.

Two battalions of German tanks can come to the aid of the Ukrainians. But when?

It was said in the program: everything in the Leopards is written in German, and moreover, it is a completely different technique than the Soviet-type tanks,

it's like someone moving from a Trabant to a Mercedes".

Since three shifts are needed for one tank, roughly a minimum of a thousand people must be trained to use the Leopards arriving in Ukraine. Resperger said: the shortest time for training is two months, and most of the Leopards - except for the Polish Leopards, which they want to hand over to the Ukrainians sooner - will be delivered by the European countries in February-March, so the Ukrainians can use them in May at the earliest.

"The problem is the training of the commander and the supervisor. It's not like I'm going to sit down and master it. In Western countries, operators practice until they reach a 90 percent hit probability on the simulator system. Only after that can they sit in the tank and shoot with it, because the ammunition belonging to the Leopard costs HUF 1 million," said István Resperger.

Photo: Csaba Krizsán / MTI