Soviet-era weapons once destined for soldiers with allegiance to Moscow now make up the backbone of Ukraine's military resistance to Russia's invasion.
who for security reasons gave only his first name. “But the engine had to be replaced.”
The Soviet Union, and later Russia, was a major arms exporter, seeding Eastern Europe in particular with tanks, artillery pieces, armored personnel carriers and air defense systems that are cheaper and simpler to use than U.S. weapons, experts “Most of the equipment in the Ukrainian military at the beginning of the war was Soviet-era,” said Mark Cancian, senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In addition to the tanks, Ukraine’s aircraft and artillery originate from that period, he said — and artillery, in particular, has proved decisive in fighting the Russians since the war began.
The Ukrainians and other former Warsaw Pact countries still use many Soviet weapons, mostly because of existing stockpiles, said Jeremy Shapiro, director of research at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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