Ukrainian scrap procurers estimate the overall amount of military machinery and equipment that can be considered scrap metal at 18-20 thousand tons.
The Ukrainian Association of Secondary metal UAVtormet has developed a special method of calculating the potential volume of scrap that can be received from damaged Russian war machinery.
At the same time, there are problems with selling and processing of such scrap. On the one hand, there are high export duties on scrap, and on the other – low commercial attractiveness, legislative limitations and minimal profitability. (Ukrainian metal)