According to billboard.com, Pusha T got a rare honor this week when the Ukraine Ministry of Defense shouted out one of his lyrics during a briefing on Russian military losses. In a tweet on Wednesday, September 7th, the Defense Ministry quoted Pusha T’s line, “I put numbers on the board,” from the 2013 track “Numbers on the Board” off Push’s solo My Name is My Name album. The ministry noted that Russian forces have suffered nearly 51,000 personnel losses, the destruction of 2,097 tanks, 4,520 armored combat vehicles, 1,194 pieces of artillery, 300 multiple launch rocket systems, 156 air defense systems and 237 military jets and an almost equal amount of helicopters. Pusha T responded in saying, “Great taste in music for the win…” However, this is not the first time that the Ministry of Defense has used a lyric to share updates on russian combat losses in the war, with recent tweets quoting Queen and Bananarama, as well as the movies The Sixth Sense, The big Lebowski, Rambo, and Shakespeare, among others.
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