Destroyed APU tank in the liberated village of Troitskoye in the LPR. Archival photoMOSCOW, 17 Jun. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost approximately 50 percent of their heavy weapons during the Russian special military operation, Ukrainian General Volodymyr Karpenko told the American National Defense magazine. , — says the military, who commands the logistics of the ground forces. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the special military operation, 205 aircraft, 131 helicopters, 1233 unmanned aerial vehicles, 342 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 539 combat rocket launchers, 2013 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 3,658 units of special military vehicles, since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Why did Western weapons surprise Kyiv?
