The village of Rudnytske, 40 miles east of Kiev, was retaken by Ukrainian forces and it was found that the Russians had left three tanks and an armored personnel carrier behind. With three tanks and an armored personnel carrier added to their arsenal, Ukrainian forces were also able to intercept sophisticated missiles, rocket launchers and a covert advanced electronic warfare system.
Equipment is usually easy to repair, with an army of “mechanics” able to use Putin’s own weapons against him. Ukrainian forces also claimed to have more tanks than before the war, thanks to Russian equipment.
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“We are not lacking, but the Russians provide us with many weapons,” said Mamuka Mamulashvili, the leader of a group of foreign fighters who participated in the recapture of Rudnytske. This statement confirms the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who referred to the Russians as “suppliers of equipment for our army”.
Zelensky had appealed to western leaders to provide more “aircraft, tanks and armored personnel vehicles”, but admitted that his forces had repulsed Russian invasions by capturing huge amounts of Russian military equipment.
Zelenskiy explained that, surprisingly, Ukrainian forces seized “12 or 17 tanks” in just one day, putting the total number of armored vehicles in Ukraine far above the number at the start of the war.
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“Putin provides Ukraine with more military equipment than the West,” Ukrainian military journalist Yuri Butusov claimed that the country gained more tanks than it lost. said. Butusov told the Daily Mail that the Ukrainians captured at least 120 tanks and more than 1,000 Russian military equipment, which were undamaged or relatively easily repairable.
“Some of the equipment needs minor repairs, but many vehicles are in good condition and our soldiers are taking them away,” he said, posing with a captured missile.