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Russian troops have lost some of the equipment through shadow exports to third c...

Russian reserves of thousands of Soviet tanks - nothing more than myth, it is easy to check on cards - an expert

Russian troops have lost some of the equipment through shadow exports to third countries and "money laundering" by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Part of the Soviet equipment that is stored in the Russian Federation is not suitable for use, so data on "thousands of tanks by the Urals" is nothing more than a myth. Anyone can make sure. The editor -in -chief of the Defense Express portal Oleg Katkov told about it on Radio NV.

"There are two aspects about the Soviet weapons that are in storage warehouses. There are two aspects of thousands, tens of thousands of tanks behind the Urals, which was still created in Soviet times, it is now very easy to check with the help of Google Maps," - The expert said.

Katkov noted that the network contains storage coordinates in the Russian Federation and thanks to them can see "a fairly pleasant picture in the form of tanks without towers" and other equipment, through which "sprout bushes and trees".

One of the reasons for this situation with weapons in the Russian Federation, the expert calls the Russian shadow export of equipment abroad - how much money the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "washed" is difficult to find out, since Russia has classified its costs for state defense orders since 2020.