Tens of Russian tanks and armored vehicles that had been delivered to Syria became obsolete for the country’s new government after the fall of Bashar al-Assad last year.
As a result, these military vehicles were abandoned in a kind of “tank graveyard” in the Idlib province, as reported by the Syrian channel Welat TV at the end of November.
In the images, dozens of T-62 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and other Russian-made armored vehicles can be seen, which had been supplied by Russia to the Syrian Arab Army over the past ten years.
In fact, the Russians themselves repeatedly released reports about the delivery of these and other armored vehicles to Syria over the years, according to the Ukrainian portal Militarnyi.
In early 2017, it was revealed that the Syrian army had received T-62M tanks from Russia, which had been withdrawn from service in the Russian army and stored in reserve bases.
The armored vehicles were supplied to replace losses in the Syrian Arab Army and were actively used in combat operations. Despite this firepower, the Assad regime fell on December 8, 2024, following an offensive to capture Syria’s capital, Damascus.
Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, where he was granted political asylum. However, the extensive war arsenal that had been abandoned at army bases became the property of the new government, which found no use for the military vehicles.
كانت تلك الغنائم شاهدًا حيًا على صمود المقاتلين.
المعركة التي حولت منطقة محررة إلى قوة تفرض توازنًا جديدًا على الأرض.#لنكمل_الحكاية#عيد_التحرير #8Dec#شام_بلس pic.twitter.com/YgF7RUIGaz— Cham Plus (@ChamPlus_) November 26, 2025
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