Russia's army became the main "supplier" of heavy equipment for the Armed Forces - The WSJ
The rapid counter -offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv direction led to the fact that the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were forced to retreat, leaving warehouses with ammunition and dozens of units of armored vehicles. Similar military trophies, according to The WSJ, helped the Ukrainian army not only return the estuary under control, but also strengthen the promotion in the direction of the captured Lugansk.
Only one 49th Carpathian Sich Rifle has captured 10 T-80 tanks and five self-propelled howitzers 2C5 "Hyacinth". In communication with journalists, the chief of staff of the unit Ruslan Andriyko Narik that servicemen do not know what to do with so many trophies now. "We have so many trophies that we do not even know what to do with them. We started as an infantry battalion, and now we seem to be a mechanized battalion," the officer added in a comment by The WSJ.
If you summarize the last counter-offensive of the Armed Forces in several directions, Russia has become the largest "supplier of heavy weapons for Kiev, bypassing all the indicators of the United States and NATO member states. From the first day of a full -scale invasion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 109 Ukrainian tanks, 15 SAUs and 63 BMPs were able to shake.
And the Armed Forces units, for its part, received 460 combat tanks from the invaders, 92 self -propelled howitzers, 448 infantry combat vehicles, 195 armored vehicles and 44 units of RSZV. It is worth noting that in early October there was information about an expensive military trophy, which was at the disposal of the Armed Forces.