According to the recent photos, during the battles in the Izium direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine servicemen took another BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle of the russian army as a trophy.
This trophy is quite rare: according to Oryx, during the 5 months of the war, Ukraine’s defenders captured about 40 units of these.
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According to The Military Balance, by the end of 2021 the russian army had only 600 BMP-3 units. According to Oryx conservative estimates, the russian occupiers lost at least 78 BMP-3s during the battles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
One more point is worth attention. On this armored vehicle, there’s an inscription in russian "for the name of our guys". This indicates that in order to "mobilize the spirit" of the occupying forces, their comanders are trying to use the fact from the category "how many guys have died".
But this technology of "ideological mobilization" does not work in practice, because specifically in this episode, the occupiers left their BMP-3 in battle untouched (we can only see the traces of hitting fragments, however the armor survived).
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