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A video of numerous Soviet-era tanks lined up on Russian railroad tracks has leaked online amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. An advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, posted the video on Twitter and asserted that Russia has Out more of its 50-year-old T-62 tanks from storage in order to use them in the conflict in Ukraine.
Mr. Gerashchenko captioned the photo, “Old Soviet tanks brought out of conservation by Russia — without protection against modern weapons.”
“And fresh Russian recruits (also unprotected from modern weapons and an army; we’ve seen the conditions in which they fight). I’d argue that this combination is ideal and destined for success “Added he.
Old Soviet tanks taken out of conservation by Russia – with no protection against modern weapons.
And new Russian conscripts (also with no protection against modern weapons and a modern army – we've seen what they fight in).
Perfect combination, doomed for success, I would say. pic.twitter.com/Lh3tNLA0AE
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 23, 2022
The seventh month of the Ukraine war has passed. Since the invasion started on February 24 of this year, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine estimates that Russia has lost about 2,254 tanks.
After the UK Ministry of Defence announced in May that Russia was losing a considerable number of tanks in the battle and that Moscow had taken 50-year-old T-62 tanks from “deep storage” to be used by its Southern Grouping of Forces, the most recent Twitter video came to light (SGF).
The decision to use such vehicles on the battlefield, according to the British ministry, reveals “Russia’s stockpiling of contemporary, combat-ready weaponry” and makes them “especially vulnerable” to anti-tank missiles.
Between 1961 and 1973, the Soviet Union is said to have produced about 20,000 tanks. The final medium tank built in the Soviet Union, the T-62 tanks were armed with a semi-automatic 115 mm smoothbore cannon. The more modern T-72 main battle tanks took their position in frontline troops and manufacture.
