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A caller video reportedly shows a Ukrainian vessel blowing up a Russian vessel successful a azygous changeable arsenic the 2 sides combat successful 1 of the country's annexed regions.
The video was posted connected Twitter by Ukraine Weapons Tracker, a associated relationship tally by Calibre Obscura and Armoby Bazaar, and shows a Ukrainian T-64BV of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade destroying a Russian T-72B-series vessel successful Novoselivske, successful the Luhansk oblast.
In the clip, tanks look disconnected from agelong distances connected a straightaway. The Ukrainian T-64BV blows up the absorption vessel successful 1 shot, causing an eruption of flames, and takes different changeable astir 20 seconds later.
Luhansk, on with Donetsk, comprises the larger Donbas portion and shares a agelong eastbound borderline with Russia. Luhansk and Donetsk were 2 of 4 territories annexed by Russia successful September.
Newsweek could not independently verify the determination of the video and has reached retired to the Ukrainian and Russian defence ministries for comment.
The Ukraine Ministry of Defense did tweet the aforesaid video, however, crediting the 92nd Mechanized Brigade.
In its regular update of eliminated Russian weapons and personnel, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that astir 94,760 Russian troops person been killed betwixt February 24 and December 12.
A full of 2,966 Russian tanks person been destroyed successful that aforesaid clip span, including 24 tanks destroyed connected Sunday alone.
The T-64BV vessel is simply a modernized mentation of the archetypal T-64B conflict tank, but with an upgraded armor package, according to Army Recognition. The archetypal tank's accumulation began successful 1985 and they person since been utilized successful Russia, Uzbekistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ukraine.
The T-72B MBT is besides a modified mentation of a vessel that primitively entered work with the Russian subject successful 1984. The tank's turret possesses an armor bundle that reportedly provides a overmuch higher grade of extortion than immoderate erstwhile model, including a glacis sheet with 20 millimeters of appliqué armor, says Army Recognition.
A study Sunday from the metropolis of Kadiivka successful the Luhansk portion stated that a edifice lodging the Wagner mercenary radical composed of Russian backstage subject contractors (PMCs) was struck by Ukrainian forces.
Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said that astir fractional of the PMCs are expected to dice arsenic a effect of the attack.
The warring continues arsenic already frigid temperatures adjacent the Russia-Ukraine borderline proceed to decrease.
On Sunday, portion acknowledging that damp ungraded could marque the ongoing struggle much of a challenge, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov pledged that Ukrainian forces volition continue defending their territory.
"But the Ukrainian Armed Forces don't deliberation astir stopping...When the ungraded becomes much solid, I americium convinced that we volition proceed our counterattacks, the run to liberate our territories," Reznikov said successful remarks translated by The Moscow Times.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said successful aboriginal December that helium believes Russia is trying to "freeze" the conflict successful bid to "regroup and motorboat a bigger violative aboriginal on."
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