On the same day that a video appeared on social media showing Russia deploying 1940s-era Katyusha rocket launchers, another footage showed Ukrainian troops training in mechanized operations with Western combat vehicles.

Bradley infantry fighting vehiclesPhoto: US Army / Zuma Press / Profimedia Images

Videos released by the Ukrainian military show them training in a partner country in Europe to use a range of combat vehicles provided by Western partners, including Humvees provided by the United States since last year, M1224 mine-resistant vehicles, MaxxPro mines… stable vehicles, BMP M113 and BMP Bradley.

The Bradley vehicles were included in a military aid package approved by the United States earlier this year. By the way, all military vehicles that can be seen in this video are produced in the USA.

The Pentagon will also send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but it is believed that they will not be able to arrive in Kyiv until this fall.

The footage appeared on social media on Sunday, the same day other footage went viral on social media, showing a Russian convoy of trucks and military equipment manufactured and used by the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1950s.

The Russians seem to be taking the “Stalin organ” to the front.

In the video, which was first posted on Telegram and then shared on Twitter, the “star” is a 1940s-era Katyusha rocket launcher, a weapon nicknamed for its shape and the sounds it makes when a missile is launched. as “Stalin’s organ”.

The head of the column is a very old 1930s Zis-6 truck, the other trucks look like 1950s Zis-151s, and one of them fires a gun that looks very much like a 1950s 50 130mm M1954.

It is currently unclear where the video was filmed, but it comes at a time when the Russians, while saying their arms industry is doing well, are resorting to increasingly outdated military equipment to fight in Ukraine.

The footage was widely commented on social networks with an ironic note, and some netizens claimed that the T-34 tanks, which remained in military warehouses after the Second World War, should also be delivered to the front.

This video appeared less than a week after another showed Russia beginning to send the Soviet T-54/55 family of tanks, which have been produced in the Soviet Union since the second half of the 1940s, to the front.

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