Russia has boasted that it will showcase captured Nato equipment in Moscow during its Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of the Second World War.
The month-long exhibition will feature 30 different vehicles from 12 countries, including German Leopard 2 tanks and American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles seized on the battlefields of Ukraine, the Russian defence ministry said.
Unverified video shared by Russian sources purports to show the wreckage of an American-made Abrams main battle tank that was recently captured in fighting near the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka being transported to be displayed in Moscow’s Victory Park.
Victory Park is an open-air museum in the Russian capital opened to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
But in recent years it has become a homage to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, celebrating claimed successes “against Ukrainian militants and their Western supporters”.
The Russian defence ministry said the new display would contain “vehicles and small arms from foreign armies, combat documents, maps, ideological literature and equipment”.
Other vehicles to be showcased include the Swedish CV90 fighting vehicle, the French AMX-10 mini tank and a British Saxon armoured personnel carrier, which was donated to Kyiv in 2015.
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