A Russian soldier reportedly admitted that the body armor given to them by the Russian military is "terrible." Above, Russian Emergencies personnel clear debris in the partially destroyed Mariupol ...

Back in 2017 the Russian army proudly announced that it had received 200,000 sets of advanced Ratnik-2 (“Warrior-2”) body armor, and that by 2020 deliveries had reached over 300,000 sets ...

Lt. Col. Dmitry Kim, a Russian military surgeon, and his team donned body armor to operate on a soldier who had an unexploded grenade lodged in his body. Zvezdanews/east2west news.

Yet Russian armor has been unearthed in 1,000-year-old burial mounds across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Urals, and French poetry of the 12 th century even refers to “fine Russian-made ...

Russian marines, who guarded Russia's Hmeymim air base in Syria, disembark from a plane as they arrive at the Belbek military airport near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, December 28, 2015.

Russia has modernized 35 brigades (over 80,000 soldiers) active military combat personnel with new body armor and weapons. Russia calls this equipment Ratnik-2. Russia is promising to develop Ratnik-3 ...

Russian soldier says his comrades took armor off Ukrainian corpses because 'NATO armor is better than ours', according to audio obtained by The New York Times.

The Russian army has already received more than 200,000 sets and the military will be fully equipped with “Ratnik-2” body armor by 2020,” Dmitry Semizorov, chief executive of Russia’s ...

"In 2020, the Russian authorities announced that 300,000 sets of Ratnik body armour had been supplied to the Russian military, which was ample to equip the force currently deployed in Ukraine.