Ukraine: Russo-Ukr War (June-December 2015)

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Kharkiv factory provides rehabilitated tanks to Ukrainian army

http://uatoday.tv/politics/kharkiv-f...my-460078.html

Manager of the Kharkiv armour plant, Viktor Kozonak, says the work his mechanics perform can be a big challenge, with some of the military hardware not seeing any use for over 30 years.

"The hardware that is brought to us for repair - some of them have been standing without any movement for more than 30 years. Therefore, for many of the tanks we have to change all rubber parts, in many tanks we have to change all electrical wiring and all electrical mechanisms. Moreover, we have to change all the motors, because over time they have gone completely out of order,"
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Maybe some "rebel" tanks are not from local depot.
OSCE must verify.

BTW a good catch--what is interesting is that the entire Ukraine defense industries have rehabed over 4000 pieces of equipment and have funneled it to the troops in the forward areas.

THEN more interesting is that in August 2014 before the Russians actually invaded to protect their mercenaries a 6K man hallowed out Ukrainian Army had virtually defeated the mercenaries on their own.

Now that army has grown to over 65K--- is combat proven and has boxed in a 34K mercenary force and 12K Russians in a 200 mile long front line with little territory being lost--actually none. That is not quite what Putin has envisioned as being a "frozen" conflict.

AND have largely pulled back their heavy weapons and are defending their lines largely with ATMs, AGLs, RPGs and 84mm mortars AND aggressive recon, sniper and SF teams--using only heavy artillery when threatened with being overrun or the mercenary artillery is massive.

Estimates of 150 tons of munitions a day are being fired at them--thus the recent three Russian "aid convoys" ---excuse me munition resupplies.