To improve his own system, Russian President Vladimir Putin kept an eye on Western weapons of war during the war in Ukraine. Again and again his soldiers will insist on taking equipment from opponents of the war. The Russians now even boast of an exhibition of Western spoils of war.
On social networks, the Russian military proudly presents captured heavy weapons from Western allies, who support Ukraine with tanks, anti-aircraft systems and missiles. According to Putin, the captured weapons can be used to improve their own systems.
Exhibition in St. Petersburg
An ongoing exhibition in the Russian city of St. Petersburg shows not only captured Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles of the type BTR-4E and BTR-3E, but also state-of-the-art Western equipment such as the mine-resistant M1124 MaxxPro vehicle from Israel and the US. production (see message below).
Months ago, there were first proposals in the Moscow parliament to organize a major exhibition of Western spoils of war.
Ukraine also exhibits Russian weapons
“If there’s anything we can use, why not,” Putin said in July of a possible weapon replica. Like Russia, the enemy produces modern weapons that can be studied, he told Russian state television at the time. But Ukraine also exhibits captured Russian weapons in the city center of the capital Kiev.
Artillery fire in Ukraine kills seven – baby among casualties
Meanwhile, Russian artillery strikes in southern Ukraine have killed seven people, including a baby just over three weeks old. Five people – including a family of four including a father, mother, a 12-year-old boy and a 22-day-old baby – were killed in the shelling of Shyroka Balka village in the Kherson region on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities said. said. Two more adults were killed in the neighboring village of Stanislav.
Source: Krone
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