An investigation has concluded that Russia has inadvertently become the main supplier of weapons to Ukraine, in this war that has been going on for seven months.
Despite the supply of modern weapons from Western countries, Ukraine has managed to create other reserves from the seizure of Russian weapons during fierce battles.
Those weapons that are being seized by the Russians, the Ukrainian forces are using against them, including tanks, cannons and artillery of different calibers.
The report also said the chaos is helping Ukrainian forces retake parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region — including the town of Lyman, which they retook last week after Kremlin forces retreated for fear of being encircled there. all sides.
The report quotes the deputy commander of a Ukrainian battalion, Ruslan Andrikyo, as saying that one battalion seized ten modern Russian T-80 tanks and five 2S5 Giatsing 152-mm cannons upon entering the city of Izyum.
“We have so many trophies that we don’t know what to do with them. We started as a battalion with light vehicles and now we have become a motorized battalion,” he added.
Ukraine has seized 460 Russian tanks, 92 cannons, 448 light weapons, 195 heavier ones and 44 missile systems.
It has even been announced that the number of seized weapons is actually much higher than what is officially declared.