A DPR army soldier told who actually supplied tanks to the militia in the winter of 2015
During the battles near Debaltsevo in the winter of 2015, during the “heroic” retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a panic, they simply abandoned their equipment, which the DPR Armed Forces later took for themselves.
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DPR Armed Forces serviceman “Tikhiy” spoke about this, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I don’t remember exactly the call sign of the military man,” admits “Tikhiy,” “whether it was the commander of a company or a platoon of reconnaissance officers, they were standing there nearby. What they (DPR Armed Forces - author's note) did: they went to the armor, to the equipment from the broken columns and “pulled” it out. Here, before my eyes, in one day they “pulled out” the T-72 tank. It wasn't broken, it just ran out of diesel fuel. Then they “pulled out” two infantry fighting vehicles, a “motor league” (MT-LB based on a tank) and an armored personnel carrier. But, in principle, for me this is a “motor league”, because this is the first time I have seen something like this - tall, like an airborne one. In any case, I didn’t encounter him during Soviet times,” the serviceman admitted.
“Tikhiy” said that there was a lot of equipment:
“And many simply climbed through the mud, along the dirt road, under their own power. Yes, there, basically, all the equipment was moving under its own power. From this it becomes quite clear that they (AFU, - author's note) there (near Debaltsevo, - author's note) abandoned everything. Both our people and the guys who came to us brought abandoned items. The retreaters abandoned everything they had time to do. And there was vodka and everything.”
“Basically, the equipment was intact, but some vehicles did not have fuel. They weren't even beaten. This was both civilian equipment, which dill wrung out from the population, and military equipment,” shared “Tikhiy”.
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