The conflict in Ukraine is in its third year, and according to public information, the West has provided more than 200 Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 series main battle tanks when providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine, but the myth of the West has been repeatedly shattered, because the Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks provided by Germany owned by the Ukrainian army have also been repeatedly destroyed by Russia. Judging from the data released by Germany, Germany has provided Ukraine with at least 38 cutting-edge Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks, and Russia has released photos and videos of Ukraine's damaged Leopard 2A6 tanks in 2023, and after entering 2024, after the M1A1ME tanks provided by the United States are in place, Russia has repeatedly released videos of destroying American-made tanks.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the United States has provided more than $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, and recently the US Congress is pushing for $61 billion worth of military aid. In addition to the United States, NATO and other Western countries are also providing military assistance to Ukraine, such as Australia, which has provided infantry armored vehicles and M777 howitzers. Now many NATO countries are fully supplying 155mm artillery shells to support the war of attrition between Ukraine and Russia, but the Ukrainian Kyiv authorities are desperately asking for Patriot 3 series anti-aircraft missiles, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly stated that he needs 25 Patriot 3 air defense systems.
Now Russia has a new move, according to Russian media reports, Russia has been dragging the Leopard 2A6 main battle tank provided by Germany directly back to Moscow, to be put on public display in Patriot Park, so there has been a public execution, so as to humiliate the rhythm of Germany. Since the beginning of 2022, Russia has collected numerous Western weapons and equipment from the battlefields of the Ukraine crisis and conflict to display them publicly in Moscow, and now Russia has new trophies. On April 22, multiple Russian social media outlets posted a video of the Leopard 2A6 main battle tank being towed by a trailer and finally sent directly to Moscow on a flatbed.
The West has a hobby of collecting Soviet/Russian weapons and equipment, and now with the "boomerang", Russia has obtained a large number of Western weapons and equipment through the Ukrainian crisis conflict, in addition to Germany's Leopard 2A6 tanks, there are also American armored personnel carriers and M777 howitzers and other equipment, and the rest have many individual weapons, including anti-tank missiles and portable anti-aircraft missiles. Through the study and collection of Western weapons and equipment, Russia can have a further understanding of Western weapons systems, in fact, Russia also has a large number of weapons that have been captured by Western military aid, and they themselves are used to hit the targets of the Ukrainian army, especially the FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile and Javelin anti-tank missile.
Russia's public display of Western weapons is actually a psychological warfare, because Russia has repeatedly shattered the myth of Western weapons, Russia has repeatedly destroyed the Patriot 3 air defense system of the Ukrainian army, and also used ballistic missiles to strike Ukraine with M142 Seahorse high-mobility rocket launchers. Although Western countries have repeatedly provided weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, they still cannot change the battlefield situation of the Ukrainian crisis and conflict, Russia has always held the initiative, and now Russia has adopted a step-by-step tactic to continuously expand the area under its control, while Ukraine is constantly investing human lives, and it is obvious that Ukraine is the biggest loser.