"The development of civilian vehicles based on the BTR-82 is not ... Military Industrial Company is Russia’s largest producer of wheeled armored hardware.
The armoured vehicles were part of a police upgrade programme ... “In the Lamu attack, all the officers and the civilian came out of the mangled MRAP alive after it was hit by a land mine.
A civilian van isn’t the worst possible vehicle ... more common as the Kremlin grapples with a growing shortage of armored vehicles. On average across the 34-month wider war, the Russians ...
Moscow has stepped up efforts to refurbish old equipment, including Soviet-era tanks used as props in films, after losing an estimated 11,000 armored combat vehicles in the Ukraine war.