The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the American Abrams tanks a children's car compared to the modernized T-72. The acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that the Russian military has been instructed and has an understanding of how to destroy German Leopard tanks.

The New York Times, citing a statement by the Pentagon, reported that servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Germany began to learn how to operate American Abrams Tanks.