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Russia to Remove From Storage Hundreds of Obsolete Armored Vehicles, Including the T-62 and T-80

russia's T80BV / Illustrative photo from open sources
russia's T80BV / Illustrative photo from open sources

The invaders experience lack of equipment to conduct active offensive operations

Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories keep being filled up with decommissioned equipment.

According to Defense Express own sources, since mid-May 64 units of T-80, 15 units of BMP and 4 units of Grad MLRS and 93 units of 152mm Msta-B and D-20 towed howitzers were decommissioned for the needs of the Southern Military District from storage and repair base №7016.

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Russia to Remove From Storage Hundreds of Obsolete Armored Vehicles, Including the T-62 and T-80, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
russia's T-80 after an encounter with NLAW / Illustrative photo from open sources

Also, 92 units of T-62 and 59 units of MT-LB were removed from the air defense mobilization deployment center №690 (Volgograd city).

In addition, 60 units of T-62 tanks have already been withdrawn from storage at base №943 in the temporarily occupied Crimea (as of May 15, 115 units of T-62 tanks were in storage at this center).

Russia to Remove From Storage Hundreds of Obsolete Armored Vehicles, Including the T-62 and T-80, Defense Express, war in Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian war
russia's T-62 / Illustrative photo from open sources

The 42nd Motor Rifle Division of the 58th Army is also expecting such "strengthening". Defense Express reported that the division should receive 10 units of BMP-3 and 34 units of MT-LBMB from storage bases.

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