Cheaply made decoys are deployed to encourage Russia to waste huge amounts of money destroying them.
A fake 155-mm M777 howitzer, for example, was made from sewer pipes for around £800.
A spokesperson from steel company Metinvest, which makes much of Ukraine’s replica army, said: ‘War is expensive and we need the Russians to spend money using drones and missiles to destroy our decoys.’‘We collect them. If our decoy was destroyed, then we did not work in vain.’ Quoted in Ukrainian Pravda, he said the number of decoys produced are not counted – only those that are destroyed, as that’s what’s key.A fake Ukrainian missile launcher Referring to a dummy radar the company built, Metinvest said: ‘The enemy was unable to distinguish the model from a real radar station and spent expensive high-precision ammunition to destroy the plywood and metal replica.’
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