Ukraine Is Using Captured Russian Tanks to Capture More Russian Tanks

MSN ^ | 12 20 | Story by Jack Buckby

[dennisw]

Video footage on social media shows Ukrainian forces continuing capture and redeploy Russian tanks – even using captured Russian tanks to commandeer more of them.

In one video recorded from inside of a car, a captured Russian tank towing a recently-captured Russian MT-LB armored personnel carrier. In the footage, multiple Ukrainian soldiers can be seen sitting on top of the tank as it tows the captured MT-LB personnel carrier. One soldier appears to wave as they pass the individual recording from inside their car.

The video, shared on Ukrainian social media channels and then re-uploaded to Twitter by Ukraine Weapons Tracker, is yet more evidence of Russian forces abandoning valuable machinery and weapons on the battlefield as the Kremlin attempts to keep its soldiers out of firing distance of Ukrainian missile systems.

While Russia addresses its worsening ammunition shortage problem, some Russian units appear willing to leave behind valuable equipment that has been damaged in combat – even if it means gifting repairable vehicles and machines to Ukrainian troops. Ukraine Weapons Tracker claims that the video was recorded somewhere in Luhansk Oblast.

“A Russian MT-LB armored personnel carrier with a ZU-23-2 23mm autocannon was captured by Ukrainian forces in #Luhansk Oblast,” the account writes. “Interestingly, the captured vehicle was recovered by a previously captured Russian T-72B3 tank.

Similar scenes have been witnessed throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Ukrainian troops frequently capturing damaged or abandoned Russian tanks whenever invading forces have retreated.

Earlier in the year, Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol can be seen operating a T-641M tank which is connected to a captured Russian T-72B3M tank, still emblazoned with multiple “Z” symbols on the side. Around half a dozen Ukrainian soldiers can be seen aboard the Ukrainian tank, while another soldier can be seen operating the captured Russian tank

[lump in the melting pot]

Russia is Ukraine’s #1 arms and ammunition supplier. Putin remains master strategist.

[Scrambler Bob]

The captured female tanks run around without their reactive armor, to attract the Russian male tanks?

[PIF]

You can tell which ones are female by the scent of their exhaust.

[Mr. Lucky]

Go to your room.

[PIF]

Thank you for those words of wisdom, Pootie Toot troll.

[jdsteel]

“Russia is Ukraine’s #1 arms and ammunition supplier.”

That statement remains true. Has been since the start of the invasion.

[Mr. Lucky]

Boy, you really are a bad person.

(I was just kidding, you know)