It made for an extraordinary sight recently on the broken, battered streets of Kharkiv on a warm Saturday afternoon.
A Russian T-80 main battle tank, draped in camouflage netting and Ukrainian flags and pennants, was broken down in front of a neighborhood grocery store, where weary shoppers shuffled past with barely a glance.
“Russian junk,” the tank commander joked.
He was happy to talk as long as we didn’t identify him, or his unit.
A Russian T-80 main battle tank captured a month ago by the Ukrainians and used to drive Russian forces away from Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city. <!–
