The proposal was put forward at the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) on July 12. Chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament Vyacheslav Volodin has tasked the lower house's defense committee with discussing with the defense ministry the details of the potential "exhibitions".
"The proposal to display burned-out Western military equipment in front of the embassies of the countries that supplied them to Ukraine is very interesting," said Volodin, the speaker of the Russian Duma.
According to RT, this proposal is reminiscent of Ukraine's practice of holding a permanent exhibition in Kiev of destroyed military equipment that it claimed was Russian.
Many Ukrainian vehicles were destroyed: Photo: Russia Today
Ukraine is believed to have suffered heavy losses of Western-supplied military equipment over the past month. Several US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M113 armored personnel carriers, as well as Dutch-made YPR-765 upgraded versions, and German-made Leopard 2 tanks have been destroyed.
Kiev suffered losses when it launched a counteroffensive in early June. According to Russia, the Ukrainian campaign did not achieve any major successes.
Russia has repeatedly called on the West to stop "pumping" weapons into Ukraine, warning that this would only prolong the confrontation rather than change the outcome.
Senior officials in Moscow have also stressed that supplying increasingly sophisticated weapons to Kiev would increase the risk of direct conflict between Russia and NATO.
In a related development, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Kiev is likely to receive F-16 fighter jets from US allies in Europe. Meanwhile, many NATO countries have offered to train Ukrainian pilots, but so far no country has committed to sending aircraft.
“The training process will take some time, followed by a phase of F-16 deliveries, possibly from European countries with surplus F-16 supplies,” Sullivan added.
On July 11, Denmark announced a "coalition" that will take on the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made aircraft, starting in August. The "coalition" is led by Denmark and the Netherlands, and also includes Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the UK and Sweden.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said the training would begin around August, possibly early September. Ideally, he said, the first F-16s flown by Ukrainian pilots would take to the skies “by the end of the first quarter of next year.”
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