Russian troops drive 'suicide tanks' packed with explosives at Ukrainian soldiers
Tanks rigged with explosives deployed as a terrifying strategy in the Ukraine conflict.
Russian soldiers in Ukraine have resorted to an unsettling new tactic, arming tanks with explosives, controlling them remotely, and moving near Ukrainian positions before detonating them.
A recent video from Donetsk shows an explosive-laden T-54 tank advancing slowly in the direction of the Ukrainian trench while being controlled remotely.
The suicide tank hits a mine and slows down as the Ukrainians make an effort to repel the attack. The tank is then targeted by a Ukrainian soldier with a rocket, which causes a huge, flaming explosion.
Despite the tank stopping some 200 feet away from the Ukrainian forces, it is very possible that some soldiers were killed as a result of the enormous pressure wave the bomb created.
At least two other times, Russia has used this strategy, but this is the first time the explosion has been documented on camera.
The Moscow propaganda station 'Romanov' claims that in this specific event, the Russian troops outfitted the tank with six tonnes of explosives and sent it with the intention of killing Ukrainian soldiers.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that its soldiers had loaded an MT-LB vehicle with explosives and targeted the Ukrainian military.
Despite the fact that these assertions have not been verified, Moscow stated that this led to huge losses.
They have released a video showing soldiers preparing the tank for attack by filling it with explosives.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine's offensive in the south of the country aimed at cutting off the Russian land bridge to crime has made little headway with fighting taking place far in front of Russia's well-established defence lines in the region.
Early clashes in the opening stages of the offensive resulted in columns of Ukrainian mechanised infantry caught in open fields where mines and artillery took a toll on Western-supplied armour.
Russian military telegram channels were quick to share images of destroyed US-made Bradley armoured vehicles as well as knocked-out Leopard tanks.
Moscow's military bosses appear to have taken their Ukrainian counterparts by surprise by mounting stubborn resistance in advance of the nearly built lines of trenches and bunkers guarding the way to Crimea and the cities of Melitopl and Mariupol further along the coast.
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According to British intelligence, the most intense fighting has centred on the southeastern Zaporizhzhia province, around Bakhmut and further west in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province.
While the update reported that Ukraine was on the offensive in these areas and had "made small advances," it said that Russian forces were conducting "relatively effective defensive operations" in Ukraine’s south.
The Ukrainian military said in a regular update Sunday morning that over the previous 24 hours Russia had carried out 43 airstrikes, four missile strikes and 51 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.
According to the statement by the General Staff, Russia continues to concentrate its efforts on offensive operations in Ukraine’s industrial east, focusing attacks around Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Lyman in Donetsk province, with 26 combat clashes taking place.