The revolving number for Victory Day
Located on Mount Poklonaya, Moscow Victory Park is an open-air museum dedicated to commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II – known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. It showcases many tanks and other vehicles used during World War II. Recently, it has welcomed a large number of new exhibits. Last week, trucks with military equipment donated by NATO countries to the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived at Mount Poklonnaya.
Russia will soon display NATO vehicles captured from the battlefields of Ukraine at a month-long exhibition in Moscow.
A similar event was held last year at Patriot Park near Moscow, where Russia also displayed a range of captured Western military equipment - including American-made M113 armored personnel carriers and fully complete French-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
More than 30 samples of military equipment made in Australia, Austria, Great Britain, the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, France, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden and South Africa will be on display in Moscow's Victory Park starting May 1, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The exhibition will open to visitors on May 1 and will be held in conjunction with the Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9 to commemorate Russia's victory over the Nazis.
There is one less person in the dogwood
The Russian army had previously hyped up the seized weapons in footage posted to its official channel on the Telegram messaging app. The exhibition will include a range of Western equipment captured by Russian forces in the ongoing war in Ukraine, such as the American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, the Swedish CV90-40 infantry fighting vehicle and the French AMX-10 RC armored vehicle, the Australian Bushmaster, the Austrian Pinzgauer 712M.
As I mentioned in "Ukraine's newest Leopard 2 tank marches into Moscow", the German Leopard 2A6 has already joined the team. Next to it will be a self-propelled gun "Krab" and a Ukrainian Soviet-made tank.
The American Abrams M1A1 is waiting for an invitation, and 5 of the 31 Abrams tanks sent by the United States to Ukraine in January 2023 have already been destroyed by Russia, which is evaluating whether they can be repaired in their entirety. U.S. military officials recently revealed that Ukraine has put their U.S. Abrams M1A1 tanks aside because they can be easily spotted by Russian drones.
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Of all the equipment Kyiv received from NATO, only British Challenger tanks confirmed that they would not attend the event. The tanks have not yet arrived in the front-line combat area, they are standing on the outskirts of Kyiv ready for defense. It was represented by its siblings, the Husky and the Mastiff armoured personnel carrier.
In a video released last year, the Russian Defense Ministry called several Leopard tanks "our trophies," showing soldiers inspecting the equipment.
It is reported that the NATO Secretary General called for its cancellation
This demonstration is an affront to the NATO bloc. Everyone knows that the North Atlantic Alliance is not a party to the conflict. Moscow's technological demonstration gave the impression not only of NATO's involvement, but also of the alliance's defeat in this conflict. Russia should not show off the equipment as if it had already won,"
Allegedly, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for the cancellation of this show.
But apparently, Russia did not agree.