This photograph taken on September 14, 2022, shows a destroyed Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicle on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A destroyed Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicle in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.
  • Russian forces are repurposing old infantry fighting vehicles by transforming them into makeshift artillery guns.
  • The improvised guns are likely inaccurate, jumping a few inches off the ground as they fire.
  • It comes as Russia continues to struggle to provide weapons to its forces.

Russian forces appear to be fashioning improvised artillery guns from the main armaments of old BMP-1 armored fighting vehicles.