A new video that has surfaced on social media shows that no new improvisation by the Russian military to protect its armored vehicles has worked in the face of Ukrainian strikes.

The footage shows how the military, sent by Vladimir Putin to Ukraine on February 24, are trying to reinforce the armor of the BTR-82A with what looks like sandbags and metal sheets.

The “82A” variant is a modernized version of the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier, which entered service with the Soviet armed forces in 1984. In theory, the 82A model is the most modern variant of this Soviet-era armored vehicle, which was introduced in 2009 with improved armor, an updated infrared sighting system, a more powerful 300 horsepower engine and a GLONASS navigation system.

Russia sent such armored vehicles, including to Syria, during its campaign of military support for the regime of dictator Bashar Assad.

A video that went viral on social media in June showed how Ukrainian forces managed to recover and repair a BTR-82A armored personnel carrier that Russian soldiers threw a grenade into to destroy it before abandoning it.

Several photos posted on social media in September showed Ukrainians seizing several such military vehicles in the Kharkiv region following the catastrophic collapse of the Russian front there and the chaotic withdrawal of Moscow’s troops from the region in northeastern Ukraine.

The Russians tried to protect their military equipment with improvisations

Since the first months of the war, numerous images have appeared on social media showing Russian soldiers using hay, carpets and branches to camouflage their trucks, as well as their precious tanks and armored vehicles, in the context of their convoys being repeatedly fired upon by Bayraktar. TB2 drones.

The photos have prompted some military analysts who have closely followed the conflict in Ukraine to say that since then, in the months before Vladimir Putin’s army retreated on several fronts, Russian troops have displayed an incredible level of amateurism.

Two photos that circulated on social networks in June showed how the Russian military tried to “armor” their KamAZs, including with wooden and metal canisters.

Other images showed Moscow’s forces using logs obtained from pro-Russian locals to bolster their equipment as Russia failed to gain air dominance over Ukraine.

However, some improvisations were related to the comfort of the Russian military: in the summer, photos appeared on social networks in which many tankmen of the Russian army build improvised “roofs” over their combat vehicles so that the sun does not shine directly on them. them and causes an unbearable temperature inside.

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