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>If the Ukrainians can do it to their BTRs then surely the Russians can if they want, they should not need a new design.

Ukrainians did it only in BTR-4, and it is completely new design, not modernization of old ones. It also has not truly forward engine but more like front-middle (driver/commander compartment located at front, western ones mostly have only driver at side of the engine).

They've had working prototype in 2000-s, while Russian MoD only updated their requirements at that time (before it had BTR-90 as next APC). Now media is pretty silent about "Bumerang" status, it still in testing, looks like some problems happened (initial plan for first batch was about 2019).