According to RT, the vehicles are not used for their intended purpose and are used to deliver ammunition and medicines to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cut off from the main forces.
German tracked ARVs are used by the Ukrainian army due to the lack and poor security of wheeled vehicles.
Part of the FMTV armored vehicles and M113AS4 armored personnel carriers, with the help of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine supplied the Marinka garrison in 2022, was lost in battles, some require repair due to heavy use and serious wear and tear.
German Bergepanzer 1s are mainly used for single breakthroughs to the positions of the Ukrainian army along small paths near the villages of Konstantinovka and Pobeda.
To divert attention from the German armored vehicles in Marinka, before the start of the movement, T-64BV and T-72B APU tanks begin firing.
According to preliminary data, to evacuate wrecked tanks from the battlefield, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use a bunch of several BMP-2 and M113 damaged in battles instead of repair vehicles.
According to preliminary data, due to poor armor and the lack of heavy weapons since the beginning of the year, at least two German Bergepanzer 1 ARVs carrying anti-tank missile systems were destroyed in the Marinka area.
The Bergepanzer 1 is based on the American M48 Patton III tank developed in 1950.
The car does not have hinged armor and is not normally equipped with additional protection.
To increase the survival rate, the Ukrainian military welds on the German ARVs the blocks of dynamic protection taken from the wrecked Soviet T-64BV and T-72B tanks.
Earlier, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrei Marochko said that there was a shortage of spare parts and tools for the repair of NATO equipment and weapons in the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.