Posted on 02/03/2023 6:21:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The first task is to wipe off or cover up the Z, says Anatoly, 44, of the call sign infamously daubed on Russian hardware involved in the war in Ukraine. “We don’t want friendly fire later on.” Then the mechanics get to work.
In a secret location in Ukraine, within a vast warehouse that could be mistaken for a tank graveyard, what was once Russian – Soviet, in many cases – is being turned Ukrainian.
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But for all the efforts of the Nato allies, it is Russia that is unwittingly, and yet by some margin, Ukraine’s biggest donor of tanks today.
Oryx, the open-source Dutch intelligence defence analysis website, has collected photographs of of 546 captured Russian tanks. It will be just a fraction of the total haul that were either abandoned by the fleeing Russian forces or seized in bloody battle.
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In some cases the Ukrainian army has set about getting such vehicles back on the field of battle under their flag. “But the state is busy repairing Ukrainian tanks,” says Roman Sinicyn, 37, a coordinator at the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, a charity managing this operation in partnership with an engineering company whose name is being withheld to avoid identification of the plant site.
As a result, civil society has stepped in. A host of private companies have set aside their usual business to get in the game of refurbishing killing machines: the tanks, armoured vehicles, missile systems and other lethal hardware left behind.
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That’s a relief! They obviously don’t need $Billions more taxpayer funded tanks and other expensive high tech armament. The question is: How are Slow Joe and his money going to launder money back into their own pockets through this type of operation? He better get on the horn and let ZEl and company know that they need to can whoever is in charge of this.
The question is: How are Slow Joe and his money cronies going to launder money back into their own pockets through this type of operation?
Ukrainians are ingenious and creative
russians are regimented and dull
Glad that made the news. I hope it helps Russia find the warehouse and punch it with a couple Iskanders.
russians are regimented and dull
I saw Zelensky’s video. Ukes are just fighting so they can cornhole each other.
Fascinating. Explain.
That's some friggin parody made years before the Z became a politician.
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