Captured NATO Military Equipment Put On Month-Long Display In Moscow

Russia will soon showcase a parade of NATO vehicles captured from the battlefield in Ukraine. Or rather, we might say that Putin is about to show off his ‘trophy vehicles’.

A month-long exhibit displaying the Western military equipment will run starting May 1st at Moscow’s Victory Park, and which will be featured alongside the capital’s annual Red Square Victory Day Parade on May 9 which commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

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The display will feature an array of armored fighting vehicles, including an American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, a Swedish CV90 and a French-made AMX-10RC.

It will also include destroyed American tanks, per state media:

For the first time Russian troops have hauled a disabled US-made M1 Abrams tank away from the front line of the Ukraine conflict, the beginning of a journey that will eventually see the vehicle displayed at a trophy show in Moscow, officials have said.

German-made Leopard main battle tanks are also being transferred to the Russian capital to be put on display.

Russia’s defense ministry has listed that it additionally has examples of military equipment made in Australia, Austria, France, Finland, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden and South Africa – as cited in Newsweek.

Russian media sources have already begun releasing images and footage of the vehicles being staged ahead of the official event kick-off.

According to reports, some of the vehicles will even display American and British flags, highlighting that they were captured on the frontlines in Ukraine, in what appears to also be a PR effort to embarrass the Western military alliance.

Last year the Russian military released several videos and images of burning French-supplied main battle tanks from the Ukrainian battlefield. At that time Russian officials began to talk of taking “our trophies” – that is, captured and/or destroyed Western equipment that had previously been supplied to Kiev.

Russia’s military is busy hauling destroyed M1 Abrams tanks from the battlefield to Moscow:

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It appears Moscow is set to especially humiliate the US and UK this year, given both countries just passed huge amounts of extra aid, to be doled out over the coming year.

Throughout well over two years of conflict, Russia says it has destroyed dozens of West-supplied tanks and armored fighting vehicles…

German-made Leopard tank joins NATO trophy display in Moscow

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— RT (@RT_com) April 28, 2024

Russia has since warned that as a consequence of Biden and US Congress authorizing $61 billion for Ukraine, its forces will have to push the frontlines back deeper into Ukraine, in order to make it harder for enemy missiles to reach inside Russian territory.

NATO TANKS BELONG IN MOSCOW MUSEUMS
– The billion dollars ‘failure’ comes from our pockets, while making millionaires in every western Govt. pic.twitter.com/vAa9ngwIcW

— Filipe Neves 🇵🇹 🇵🇸 (@_FilipeNeves) April 28, 2024

One commenter has summed up the sad reality of the situation: “The billion dollars ‘failure’ comes from our pockets, while making millionaires in every western Govt.”