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Ukraine Loses ‘A Lot Of’ Western Stryker and Marder Armored Vehicles in Zaporozhye – Media

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Marder 1, a German infantry fighting vehicle - Sputnik International, 1920, 24.09.2023
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Top-tier weaponry, lavishly supplied to Kiev by US and European politicians, did not became a game changer in the Ukrainian counteroffensive attempt and turned out to be a perfect trophy for Russian armed forces.
Kiev lost "a lot of equipment" near the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoe in Zaporozhye direction, a US news outlet reported, quoting an anonymous Ukrainian militant. Among the losses, there are German Marders and American Strykers, the armored vehicles that proved not good enough against "saturation of antitank mines" and Russian forces that were described by anonymous media source as "colossal".
U.S servicemen drive their armored vehicles at the opening ceremony of U.S, British and Georgian troops joint military exercises at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. - Sputnik International, 1920, 21.09.2023
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Ukrainian servicemen carry their wounded comrade to a stabilization point of the 5th assault brigade in an undisclosed area near Artemovsk. File photo - Sputnik International, 1920, 23.09.2023
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