by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
The Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) says its troops have captured NATO-supplied armor in the Zaporizhia region, some of which appear to have been hastily abandoned by fleeing Ukrainian soldiers.
The MoD released footage of Russian troops inspecting a German-made Leopard 2 main battle tank and US-produced Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, which are said to be still intact, some with engines still running. The Russian military declared that the Western-supplied heavy armored vehicles are “our trophies“. WATCH the official Russian military footage below:
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One Russian soldier declares on video, “This [explicit] hardware is not as scary as it seemed.” He’s seen picking up a rocket-propelled grenade launcher which had been left atop a tank.
The defense ministry statement said that the condition in which they were seized “indicates the rapid pace of the engagement and the abandonment of the battle-ready hardware by the Ukrainian armed forces,” according to a statement in state media. And AFP observes that “The Defense Ministry said several of the captured vehicles had working engines, suggesting that the battles they were involved in had been short and that Ukrainian troops had ‘fled’ their offensive positions.
This comes after last week the Russian military reportedly destroyed its first Leopard 2 battle tank along with multiple other NATO-supplied vehicles, such as Bradleys. Moscow has been eager to show off the evidence of the disabled and damaged Western heavy weapons systems. It’s not entirely clear whether the new footage issued Tuesday features close-up of a fresh batch of destroyed vehicles, or if is the same incident from last week.
Tyler Rogoway, the editor-in-chief of The War Zone (a publication of The Drive) has recently explained to Western analysts why we are about to witness a lot more destroyed Western armor to come:…
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