The American weekly Newsweek writes that according to Ukrainian military observers, the number of Russian tanks assembled on Ukrainian territory since 2014 has grown tens of times.

The Kremlin says that any equipment that is in the hands of pro-Russian separatists, the militants received from Ukrainian state depots, Kiev retained weapons manufactured in Russia even before the war. Kiev denies these statements, but due to the fact that it is difficult for international observers to reach the territories of Ukraine controlled by the separatists, it is difficult to assess the real situation, the article says..

According to the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, in 2014, when military operations began in the Donbas, observers recorded 30 Russian tanks there, and in three years this figure increased 20-fold to 680, the article says.. It is also reported that the number of rocket launchers increased more than tenfold. The number of armored combat vehicles has increased almost tenfold - from 124 to 1250, the author writes.

At the same time, the publication notes, the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine have not commented on these data, provided by the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.