ロシア、鹵獲した西側の軍需品展示　国際軍事フォーラムで

【モスクワＡＦＰ＝時事】ロシアの首都モスクワ近郊にある軍事テーマパーク「愛国者公園」に、軍が鹵獲（ろかく）した西側諸国の軍需品が展示されている。自軍の戦果を誇示するとともに、ウクライナ軍の反転攻勢が失敗しているというイメージを強調する内容となっている。（写真はロシア・モスクワ近郊の軍事テーマパーク「愛国者公園」に展示された、ウクライナ軍のミサイルシステム「トーチカＵ」の残骸）
　会場には、フランス製の装輪装甲車「ＡＭＸ１０ＲＣ」、英国がウクライナに供与した装甲車の「マスティフ」や「ハスキー」、米国製の装甲兵員輸送車「Ｍ１１３」などが並んでいる。
　また、２０２２年２月の「特別軍事作戦」開始以降に鹵獲したとするウクライナ製の武器も展示されている。
　これらの軍需品は、ロシア政府が友好国と位置付ける諸国の関係者も出席し、２０日までの日程で開催される国際軍事フォーラムの主要展示の一つとなっている。
　昨年、ウクライナのヘルソン州やハルキウ州からの撤退を余儀なくされたロシア軍は、その後の戦力回復をアピールしたい考え。さらに、６月に反攻に乗り出したものの苦戦を強いられているウクライナ軍の前進の遅れを「失敗」だと印象付ける狙いもある。
　ロシアのセルゲイ・ショイグ国防相は１５日に行われた国際安全保障会議の場で、ウクライナの軍事資源について、西側諸国から支援を受けているにもかかわらず「ほぼ枯渇」しているとの見方を示した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/08/18-16:25）

In the Moscow region's Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armoured vehicle.
It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working, the serviceman told Russian state-run agency TASS.
He then turned to a British Husky vehicle, whose windshield was riddled with what seemed to be bullet holes.
Around him, more Western military equipment was on display, an opportunity for the Russian army to flaunt its achievements and mock the counteroffensive that Ukraine launched in June.
A few metres away, another Russian officer was showing off a French AMX-10 RC and its famously long anti-tank gun.
The collection of trophies that AFP journalists saw Tuesday also included an Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle, a US M113 personnel carrier and a Swedish CV90 combat vehicle.
A large part of the show consisted of British equipment, including Husky and Mastiff vehicles as well as a Saxon personnel carrier, according to the defence ministry press service.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who now deals with questions related to the country's military industry as the deputy dead of the Russian security council, visited the exhibition on Wednesday.
Advanced technologies, that's worth looking at, he said while inspecting a military vehicle purportedly from Australia, according to footage from Russian state-run agency RIA Novosti.
Medvedev also looked at items supposed to show the ideological indoctrination of the Ukrainian youth, including clothes with national slogans and emblems of the Azov regiment -- considered an extremist organisation in Russia.
- 'Ready to share' -
The exhibition also featured Ukrainian-made weapons allegedly seized since the start of the military campaign in February 2022.
Last summer, the Russian army had already presented equipment it said it brought back from Ukraine.
The display is one of the attractions at the Army-2023 Forum, which runs until August 20 and is attended by military delegations from countries deemed friendly by Moscow.
After the setbacks last year -- with the withdrawal from Kherson and the northern Kharkiv region -- the Russian army wants to show it has recovered.
Ukraine launched another counteroffensive in June but its troops are now contending with well-entrenched Russian positions.
Ukrainian troops' slow progress provided the Kremlin with a new talking point: the counteroffensive, it says, is a failure.
Ukraine's military resources are almost exhausted, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told an assembly of international military officials on Tuesday.
He said there was nothing unique about Western weapons and that they were not invulnerable to Russian arms on the battlefield.
We are ready to share assessments of the weaknesses of Western technology, Shoigu said.
More than 17 months into the offensive, the capabilities of its military-industrial complex is one of the major challenges for the Kremlin.
Shoigu said Russia had succeeded in strongly increasing its production of armoured vehicles, despite international sanctions.
Western representatives accuse former Soviet Republics, as well as China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, of importing and then exporting to Russia embargoed equipment that could be used to manufacture weapons.