Before the war, these Ukrainian mechanics fixed cars and trucks, trains and buses. Now they're repairing, refurbishing and retrofitting captured Russian tanks.
tanks initially, promising to send more later, and that it would allow countries that had bought their tanks to do the same. Other countries — including Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden — said they were planning on or considering sending their own Leopard 2 tanks. The United Kingdom pledged to send 14 of its Challenger 2 battle tanks.
Bohdan Ostapchuk has helped coordinate the repair of captured vehicles at the facility for the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, a nonprofit operated by Prytula, a former television host and political candidate in Kyiv. They have paid for the repair of 13 captured Russian vehicles so far: T-72 tanks, BTR-80 amphibious personnel carriers, the BMP infantry fighting vehicle and the BREM-1 armored repair and recovery vehicle.
to Ukraine because they said it would take too long to train soldiers to operate and fix them, three U.S. officials previously told NBC News. The depot’s lead mechanic and his crew are adept at repairing Soviet-style military equipment, but noted they have enjoyed their limited access to Western kits because they are more intuitively built, which can make it easier to navigate the circuits and wiring they find inside.
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