An exhibition of captured military trophies has opened in Moscow, ahead of the May 9 annual Victory Day parade, showing off Nato armour and vehicles captured by Russian forces in the Ukraine conflict. The damaged tanks and APCs have been used by the Kremlin propaganda machine to showcase the Russian army’s successes in the fight against Nato, as the Kremlin sells it, and belittle Western claims that Nato weapons are far superior to Russian-made materiel. The highlights of the exhibition are a destroyed German-made Leopard and US-made Abrams main battle tanks, some of the most powerful tanks in…
