1-The T-72B was never sent to Soviet Ukraine. “It is operated by the Russian Army in large numbers, but crucially it is not known to have been exported or operated outside of Russia,” Joseph Dempsey, a military analyst for the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies,
2-A Reuters reporter counted 124 packages of field rations with “not for sale” labels and notes that they were produced for the Russian Defense Ministry. A spokeswoman for Voentorg, the company in Russia that produces such meals for the Russian Defense Ministry, confirmed they cannot be sold.
3-About 50 empty bottles of mineral water around the tanks bore labels identifying them as being produced in Russia’s Ivanovo province, the region where the division of the Russian paratroopers captured in August is based.
What was ‘Russian Army’ in 1989?
They didn’t need to export a thing to bring it into Soviet Ukraine which was a federal subject of USSR.
And I still haven’t seen a Russian MRE with such a marking.