Kyiv auto repair shop adapts captured Russian weapons for local forces

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

KYIV (Reuters) - A Kyiv auto mechanics workshop has jumped from car repairs and maintenance to adapting captured Russian weapons for use by Ukrainian troops defending the capital.

Oleksandr Fedchenko said he had been throwing around ideas with staff at his car repair shop after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, wondering how they could help outgunned local forces.

"It turned out that there are people working at our shop who know how weapons work," he said.

Ukrainian forces have stripped large quantities of Russian heavy machine guns and other weapons from armoured vehicles they have destroyed in the three weeks since the Kremlin launched what it called a special military operation in Ukraine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyiv-auto-repair-shop-adapts-195604717.html

[KY_EnviroGuy]

1. Russians facing a far more skilled and better educated version of Afghanistan....

re the Soviet–Afghan War from '79 to '89.

Also brings to mind the Iraqi and Libyan insurgents that had skills to take stuff out of junk heaps and turn it into hell on wheels.

Let's hope the Ukrainian people send Putin and his criminal military packing and licking their wounds......

[MLAA]

3. +1

[NickB79]

2. I'm guessing they're converting trucks into technicals

Toyota's with anti-aircraft guns in the beds.

[roamer65]

5. Saddam loved those in the Iraq-Iran War.

They killed a lot of Iranians with them if I remember right.

[monkeyman1]

4. taking Russian ammo & sending their bullets back at em' - way to go UKRAINE!!!