Tree trunks to defend against Ukrainian partisans, the Russians as well as the retreating Germans in the Second World War

LONDON – Wooden logs as armor to defend against ambushes by the partisans. It is the emergency system adopted by some Russian military trucks in the invasion of theUkraine, highlighted by photographs that have reached the Western media. While tanks and armored vehicles sent from Moscow to fight are already equipped to protect themselves from enemy fire, the lighter means of transport, used by the Russian armed forces to transport soldiers, ammunition or supplies, are exposed to the shots of the army sharpshooters. Ukrainian or civilians who lost their weapons to resist the attack.