In Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow opened an exhibition of trophy Western weapons and military equipment captured in the zone of the special military operation, RIA Novosti reports.
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Moscow citizens and guests of the capital can see at the exhibition German tank Leopard 2A6 and BMP Marder, American BMP Bradley, armoured personnel carriers International MaxxPro and M113, armoured vehicles HMMWV M1151 and HMMWV M998, howitzer M777.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, some of the vehicles were captured by Russian Armed Forces soldiers during battles in the areas of Rabotino and Malaya Tokmachka villages in the Zaporizhzhya region and near Avdeevka in the DPR.
The exhibition also showcased armoured vehicles AT105 Saxon and Husky TSV produced in the UK, Austrian Pinzgauer 712M, Turkish armoured vehicle Kirpi, British armoured vehicle Mastiff, French wheeled tank AMX-10RC, Swedish BMP CV90, protected vehicle Bushmaster produced in Australia, Finnish APC Sisu Pasi XA-180/185, armoured vehicle Mamba MK2 produced in South Africa and Czech BMP-1.
On the night of 1 May on Poklonnaya Hill was also delivered captured on the Avdiivka direction American tank M1 Abrams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and made on its basis assault engineer vehicle M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle.
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The exhibition will last a month, in addition to the listed weapons, its visitors will be able to see samples of small arms of the armies of foreign countries, documents, maps, ideological literature, equipment of Ukrainian soldiers.
We shall remind you that earlier Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, inspecting the implementation of the state defence order at the defence industry enterprises in Altai, called on the employees of the defence enterprise to “plough in three shifts” to meet the needs of the Russian army in the SMO zone.