Putin Starts Using Old ‘Cold War Tractors’ After Running Out of Usable War Machines

Due to a lack of equipment, Russia is forced to rely on military machines from the 1950s in order to ramp up efforts in their battle with their neighbours. As he runs out of usable machinery in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has resorted to using Cold War tractors on the frontlines.

According to a Ministry of Defence intelligence report, the Russians are using MT-LB vehicles, which were designed in the 1950s as “amphibious tractors.”

The news comes just days after Putin claimed he hadn’t “started anything serious” in the besieged country.

Putin is assumed to be preparing to send more troops to the Donbas region, where Russian forces have taken Luhansk.

According to the Ministry of Defence, “Russia has long considered the MT-LB vehicles unsuitable for most front-line infantry transport roles.”

“Originally designed in the 1950s as a tractor to pull artillery, they have very little armour and only a machine gun for protection.”

The ‘tractor’ transports a driver and a gunner, as well as up to ten troops in its small, airless hold.

The Russians launched their invasion of Ukraine using the much more modern BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, which are armed with a 30mm autocannon and an anti-tank missile launcher, as well as 33mm thick armour.

One military expert on Twitter ridiculed Russia’s use of these so-called tractors, writing: “Imagine a farmer in France and the only tractor you could afford is a Ford tractor from the 1950s?

“That’s what an MT-LB is. An armoured tractor from the 1950s. The essence of how badly things are going right now for Mordor and the Orcgod is lost in abbreviations.”

Another commentator added: “I suppose this is in keeping with the reactivation of T-62s (battle tanks, first built in 1961). Russia only has a relatively small amount of modern equipment and they’ve been haemorrhaging from day one.”

Russia is believed to have lost over 20,000 soldiers since the invasion began on February 24.

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