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New York Times
13 Jan 2024
Thomas Gibbons-NeffFinbarr O’Reilly


NextImg:Russia Regains Upper Hand in Ukraine’s East as Kyiv’s Troops Struggle

The Ukrainian soldier stared at the Russian tank. It was destroyed over a year ago in the country’s east and now sat far from the front line. He shrugged and cut into its rusted hull with a gas torch.

The soldier was not there for the tank’s engine or turret or treads. Those had already been salvaged. He was there for its thick armor. The metal would be cut and strapped as protection to Ukrainian armored personnel carriers defending the embattled town of Avdiivka, around 65 miles away.

The need to cannibalize a destroyed Russian vehicle to help protect Ukraine’s dwindling supply of equipment underscores Kyiv’s current challenges on the battlefield as it prepares for another year of pitched combat.

“If our international partners moved faster, we would have kicked their ass in the first three or four months so hard that we would have gotten over it already. We’d be sowing fields and raising children,” said the soldier, who went by the call sign Jaeger, in keeping with military protocol. “We’d be sending bread to Europe. But it’s been two years already.”

ImageSoldiers man a tank that cuts a path through a brown, open field. Gray clouds hang in the sky.
Members of Ukraine’s 17th Tank Brigade, which is fighting near the front line in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
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A Ukrainian mechanic working on a military vehicle at a maintenance yard near the front line in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region in December. Ukrainian soldiers have been salvaging armor from damaged vehicles to reinforce armored personnel carriers.

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