With Ukraine capturing an estimated 453 Russian tanks since the start of his invasion, Vladimir Putin's own equipment is being used against his forces.
Ukrainian officials may continue to push the West to provide more military hardware but their efforts in the battlefield have been helped in no small part by the contribution of Russia.
Zev Faintuch, senior intelligence analyst with security firm Global Guardian, which has intelligence groups on the ground in Ukraine, said Kyiv's forces had also destroyed around 700 Russian MBTs—meaning Putin had lost around 40 percent of his forces' tanks. "The captured Russian tanks have, in fact, improved the quality of Ukraine's armored corps," he said."Ukraine's pre-war stock of tanks was mostly comprised of modified second-generation tanks."
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