The expected battle for the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine is likely to lead to the biggest tank clash since World War II. What happens to Ukraine – and to Western-Russian relations in the foreseeable future – may depend on how it develops. So how will it develop?
This part of the world is a major tank territory. The Battle of Kursk in southwestern Russia involved about two million troops and 6,000 tanks in 1943, the largest tank battle in history. What is being asked in Donbass is not on this scale. However, 75 years later, the tanks and how well the Russians use them will determine the course of the battle: the tank will fight the tanks in a brutal conflict on an industrial scale,
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