With the tank seemingly disabled, unsteady drone footage, shot from the direction of the Russian line, appeared to show the movement of Ukrainian troops in the trees. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, the ministry said the tank, which could date back to the 1940s, was packed with “about 3.5 tons of TNT and 5 FAB-100 bombs”.īut footage shared on social media appeared to show that the tank was destroyed before it reached its target of Ukrainian troops nestled in a tree line.Īs it approached, an explosion and a puff of black smoke engulfed the suicide tank from below, suggesting it had run into a landmine. The country’s defence ministry claimed the remote-controlled vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) destroyed a Ukrainian stronghold in the area. Russian troops sent a Soviet-era “kamikaze” tank loaded with dynamite to the Ukrainian force’s line in the eastern Donetsk region, in what appeared to be a new battlefield tactic.
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