About the equipment, I'm assuming you mean tanks. The model in question is a T-72BM, which has NEVER been exported or otherwise ended up anywhere else other than in the hands of the Russian Army. Until now.
The T-72BM wasn't a Russian tank it was a USSR tank, it may have
NEVER been exported or otherwise ended up anywhere else other than in the USSR but Ukraine was part of the USSR hence why they had parts for them and whole tanks.
The Ukraine does have T-72's, but they're in storage, and lack the Kontakt 5 explosive reactive armour and upgraded armour plating on the turret that set the T-72BM apart from any other variant of the T-72, and make it rather distinctive.
The T-72BM (basically a T72-B with Kontakt-5) may have been set apart from it's predecessors and successors by the Kontakt-5, but it's not the only variant of the T-72 to have it, the others are the Ukrainian T-72AG, T-72AMG and Serbian M84 tanks (despite the M84 name they are clones of the T-72 with various upgrades depending on model).
Oh by the way those T-72AG and AMG tanks with the Kontakt-5 armour that look identical to T-72BM's, they can be found in depos dotted around Ukraine, like ones seized by the rebels.
Oh and I almost forgot, the Kontakt-5 armour is even easier to find as they still use it on their T-80 and T-84 tanks.
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All over the internet I see people bragging about how they can see through Putin's lies/etc and can see what's really going down in Ukraine. Has it occurred to anyone we may simply be falling for Kievs lies?
Look at it this way, they are pushing the rebels further and further back and as a result are starting to inflict bigger and bigger civilian casualties, what better way to stop Russia intervening as you approach their border shooting at Russian speaking civilians, than by shouting louder and louder as you go about how Russia is attacking you, bullying you, hurting you. That way Russia knows the is no way they can do anything without major repercussions as everyone already thinks their guilty, it's like beating a bully by using their reputation as a bully to get them into trouble so they can't do anything.
Just an idea, and to be honest I think it's more likely Putin is up to very dodgy stuff, but I'm not going to make the leap from thinking it to believing it without a shred of hard evidence.
