"Visually, you can always see when the vehicle was taken care of, and when it had been lying in a field for 30 years. The Ukrainian World Congress brought with it to Britain officers from the logistics department of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces to check the quality of armored vehicles.
The foundations had to hire people to assess the condition of each vehicle. Like cars, quality and prices varied, and not every machine was suitable for combat. Volunteers, many of them Ukrainian refugees, combed through advertisements for armored vehicles in the UK.
"It was funny to me to watch politicians applaud President Zelensky in parliament when they agreed to send 14 Challenger-2 tanks," Nick Mead told reporters. The Sun wrote about British businessman Nick Mead, the owner of the company Tanks A Lot, which has already delivered 100 units of armored vehicles, including tanks, to Ukraine. Ukrainian charitable foundations cooperated with these firms to acquire the old tanks. There are professional companies on the market that buy equipment at auction, repair, paint and send them off in large batches for export. We were embarrassed then, because we are looking for equipment for the front line, and for them these are toys," says Andriy Potichniy, the director of the Ukrainian World Congress’ Unite With Ukraine initiative. You can get together with the boys, take an armored car and play war. "We saw places where these armored vehicles were used for paintballing. There are also those who rent an armored car for birthdays, weddings, funerals, rallies and filming. One British company offers customers a ride on a Spartan tank for $280. In previous years, buyers were often businessmen who found peaceful uses for military equipment. According to the Army Technology portal, more than 150 units of tracked armored vehicles were put up for auction in Britain in 2022 alone.
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