Captured Russian artillery displayed in Poland

STORY: According to information compiled by the Ukrainian defense ministry and displayed alongside the captured artillery, the T-72B tank was destroyed in a tank battle in the Bucha district near Kyiv, while the 2S19 MSTA-S howitzer was captured in the north-eastern Sumy region.

Among the onlookers were Taras and Victoria, a husband and wife from the western city of Lviv who left Ukraine several years ago.

“We wanted to see how it actually looks and how the Russian military looks like especially in this state,” Taras said.

“We saw and destroyed many of those tanks,” said James, a 56-year old lawyer from Oregon in the United States who said he had been fighting alongside the Ukrainian army before coming to Poland.

“Morale is still very high,” he said, saying Ukrainians were fighting for their homes and families.

Long suspicious of Russian intentions in central and eastern Europe, Poland has positioned itself as one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies since President Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, in what Russia describes as a “special operation”.