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How hero Ukrainian mechanics are blitzing Russian troops with their OWN tanks and missiles in Putin’s shambolic invasion
HERO Ukrainian mechanics are repairing Russian tanks to be used by their own forces against the invaders.
Vladimir Putin’s forces have lost thousands of vehicles in the war in Ukraine, including around 600 tanks and over 1700 other armoured vehicles.
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Many of their burnt out shells now litter the landscape after being blasted by Kyiv’s forces.
But ingenious Ukrainian mechanics have also been at working on repairing ones that can be salvaged.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has become one of the main suppliers of arms to their enemy.
"We take trophies and use them to protect Ukraine," he said.
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"Today, Russian troops are, in fact, one of the suppliers of equipment to our army."
In factories as well as small workshops, staff are being redirected to repairing equipment captured from Russian forces in the fighting.
“We will remake the weapons so the barrels will be directed at the enemy’s side, not ours,” Kyiv garage owner Oleksandr Fedchecnko
Humiliatingly for Russian forces, many of their abandoned tanks have been towed from the battlefield by farmers in their tractors.
It comes as...
- Terrified Roman Abramovich asked if he was going to die after being poisoned by a deadly WWI chemical agent.
- Russia has said it is to “drastically reduce” forces near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as its invasion continues to falter.
- Putin “must think we were born yesterday” if he thinks Britain believes his troops are pulling out of Kyiv.
- A suspected arms depot was allegedly hit by a Ukrainian missile, sparking firework-like explosions.
- Russia has reportedly lost a seventh colonel since the start of fighting in another major blow to Putin's army.
- Putin has re-opened Bond-villain style military bases deep inside the Arctic Circle.
- Chechnya's fighters arrived in Ukraine with a fearsome reputation, but have faced bloody slaughter on the battlefield, reports claim.
- Paranoid Putin and his inner circle are reportedly living in top-secret nuclear bunkers as the bloody war unfolds in Ukraine.
A special unit army unit has been tasked with repairing captured equipment in a Kyiv junkyard with the Ukrainian flag painted over the infamous Russian Z.
Yuri Golodov, the unit’s deputy commander, says has been responsible for 24 Uragan missiles fired back at Russian forces.
“Everything that we take away from the Russian army, we transfer to the armed forces of Ukraine,” he told CNN.
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"Everything is in working condition. It looks old weaponry, but actually if you use it correctly it will serve us for a long time."
The Ukrainian’s task is helped by its forces using many of the same type of tanks as their Russian foes.
They operate least two models that the Russians also use, the T-72 and .
In fact according to some calculations, Ukraine now has more tanks than at the start of the invasion thanks ones it has captured.
Its army has lost at least 74 tanks since Russia invaded but has captured at least 117 Russian tanks, , quoting open source intelligence analysts.
Tanks are now the only weapons being turned on the Russians.
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State defence company Ukroboronprom is now offering a $1million reward for any aircraft it receives.
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The company says it has “mastered the repair of Russian trophy equipment”.
Factories are working “around the clock’” to get anti-aircraft missile systems and multiple rocket launchers back onto the battlefield.
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