An exhibition of captured weapons and equipment was opened on Poklonnaya Gora

An exhibition of captured weapons and military equipment was opened in Victory Park in Moscow

MOSCOW, May 1 - RIA Novosti. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation opened an exhibition of captured weapons and military equipment captured by Russian servicemen during a special military operation in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, part of the equipment was seized in the settlements of Rabocino and Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye region and Avdiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The exposition is located on the site in front of the Victory Museum. There are German Leopard 2A6 tank and Marder BMP, American Bradley BMP, M113 armored personnel carrier, International MaxxPro armored vehicle, HMMWV M1151 and HMMWV M998 armored vehicles, towed M777 howitzer.

In addition, AT105 Saxon and Husky TSV armored vehicles manufactured in Great Britain, the Austrian Pinzgauer 712M, the Turkish Kirpi armored car, the British Mastiff armored vehicle, the French AMX-10RC wheeled tank, the Swedish CV90 BMP can be seen at the exhibition.

Also shown are the protected Bushmaster car manufactured in Australia, the Finnish Sisu Pasi XA-180/185 armored personnel carrier, the South African-made Mamba MK2 armored car, the Czech BMP-1, the Ukrainian Azovets tank support combat vehicle.

On the eve of the exhibition, an armored repair and evacuation vehicle (BRAM) M88A1 made in the USA, captured by Russian servicemen in the Avdiivka direction, was delivered to the exhibition. Its main purpose is the evacuation of damaged armored vehicles from the battlefield.

Just a few hours before the opening, on the night of May 1, two more samples of American equipment were brought here - the M1 Abrams tank and the M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle, an assault engineering vehicle made on its basis. Its main purpose is to make passages in minefields. Abrams and M1150 were captured while conducting offensive operations in the Berdych area in the Avdiivka direction.

In addition, the exhibition presents anti-tank and small arms of the armies of foreign states, drones, combat documents, maps, ideological literature and equipment of Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

As Andrey Lyubchikov, senior researcher at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, told reporters, the exhibition consists of several sites. The first one contains samples of military equipment, including main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other armored vehicles. Another one has tents featuring firearms, engineering ammunition, communications equipment, as well as drones.

Lyubchikov stressed that more than 80 years ago, an exhibition of captured equipment captured by Red Army soldiers was already organized in Gorky Park. One of the vehicles received at that time is still represented on Poklonnaya Gora - a German Marder II BMP.

An employee of the museum said that due to the large range of equipment supplied to Kiev, the enemy is forced to throw it on the battlefield, unable to carry out repairs promptly. This is how he explained that most of the captured exhibits presented at the exhibition are in good condition.

"There is an interesting story with Abrams. The fact is that the first widespread combat use of Abrams took place during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. At that time, the American army and the coalition of Western countries in general were opposed by the Iraqi army, which, according to its technical characteristics, could not give a decent answer. As a result, Abrams took part in local conflicts before the special military operation... A special military operation has shown that if the vaunted American and other Western equipment is opposed not by the rebel army, but by a modern equipped army, which is the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, these advantages, which they talked about earlier, they are reduced to zero," Lyubchikov said about one of the copies of the exhibition.

He stressed that the exhibition shows two samples that exist in the world in a single copy. The first is the T-72AG tank, a Ukrainian development that differs from the Soviet T-72A with a new engine and transmission compartment and engine. He was captured near Kiev at the beginning of his war. Another unique instance is the Azovets tank support combat vehicle based on the T-64 tank, captured in the Kharkiv region.