In late May, Russian anti-government social media, and then-independent Ukrainian news platforms, followed 45 Vietnam-era T-62 tanks taken out of storage in Siberia and shipped to Ukraine’s south, where they were committed to Russia’s ultimately unsuccessful attempt to hold a bridgehead on the north bank of the Dnipro River around Kherson. When a second tank trainload left Belarus’ Orsha station, notwithstanding a Belarusian ban on publicizing secret military information, the location and movement of those tanks was made public as well. The Belarusian opposition group Belarusian Hajun Project not only confirmed the transfer but posted internet updates on the train shipment all the way into Russia’s Belgorod Oblast’. The first transfer of Belarusian tanks to the Russian military, 20 T-72 tanks of 1990s vintage, was delivered in October, a statement by Ukraine’s Army General Staff (AGS) said. “Now I guess they are running out.”Īs the war has ground on, more and more evidence has surfaced that the Russian army is looking, with increasing intensity, for ways to replace all the tanks demolished by AFU fighters like Lysovsky. “The Russians for a long time threw away tanks like they were washrags, but they don’t do that anymore,” Lysovsky said.
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