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Planes with tanks donated by Russia to Serbia began to land at Batajnica airport, Sputnik unofficially discovered.
Source: Sputnik
Illustration: Deposit photos / kzwwsko
The Russian Federation donated 30 T-72MS tanks to Serbia, and the first ones have already been delivered.
According to former Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin, the T-72 tanks were received by Serbia as a donation within the military-technical agreement reached between President Aleksandar Vuić and Vladimir Putin. He added that thanks to this donation, our armored units will be “significantly improved and strengthened.”
As part of the military-technical agreement, Serbia received from Russia, in addition to these tanks, other armored vehicles, 30 BRDM-2 armored vehicles, some of which have already arrived in Serbia.
Both the tanks and the BRDMs were modernized before being handed over to our army.
Russian military expert Fyodor Boldyrev estimated that the T-72 tanks that Serbia received “have a common base of the Soviet T-72, but also through new components and common aggregates of Russian production, which will facilitate their joint exploitation in Serbia.”
“For the conditions in the Balkans, Serbia does not need more modern tanks, taking into account the weaknesses of the armies of neighboring countries,” Boldirjov said on behalf of Sputnik.
As part of the military-technical cooperation, Serbia also acquired “Mig-29” aircraft, MI-17 and MI-35 helicopters, “Pancir” air defense systems from Russia …
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