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March 31, 2023 | 5:01 p.m
A column of Russian tanks and armored fighting vehicles was systematically wiped out by Ukrainian marines armed with man-portable rocket launchers in the Donetsk region, heartbreaking viral video shows.
The two-minute footage, which is set to a headbanging Ukrainian rap song, had nearly 159,000 views on Twitter as of Friday.
It shows at least seven Russian armored personnel carriers and tanks moving in single file through a desolate landscape riddled with rocket shell craters and dotted with houses reduced to rubble.
What the Russians failed to notice was that they drove straight into an ambush led by members of Ukraine’s 36th Separate Marine Brigade who were lying in wait everywhere.
This screenshot, from video released by Ukraine’s 36th Separate Marine Brigade, shows a Russian armored vehicle exploding into a fireball after a missile attack. YouTube/36 OBrMP
In the clip, Kiev’s troops, carrying US-supplied Javelin rocket launchers on their shoulders, wasted no time unleashing the enemy vehicles, prompting them to break formation and disperse.
But the evasive maneuvers prove futile as the anti-tank missiles take turns hitting their moving targets, setting them ablaze.
In one case, a missile hits a fleeing Russian tank and sends thick plumes of smoke into the sky.
Ukrainians armed with US-supplied Javelin surface-to-air missile launchers ambushed a column of Russian tanks in Donetsk this week. YouTube/36 OBrMP Kiev forces targeted a column of at least seven Russian armored vehicles and fired on them one by one. The YouTube/36 OBrMP video shows three Russian soldiers jumping out of a smoking tank and fleeing. YouTube/36 OBrMP
Three soldiers frantically jump out of their burning tank and flee on foot, with one of the men on his hands and knees in the dirt, possibly from an injury.
Another Russian tank narrowly escapes a direct hit and tries to fight back by firing at the Ukrainian positions, but a second Javelin missile quickly finds its way to it.
Later, one of the smoldering Russian combat vehicles explodes in a giant fireball, raining debris down on the grim surroundings.
A Russian tank tried to fight back by firing at the Ukrainians but was hit by a Javelin missile. YouTube/36 OBrMP
The action on the field is punctuated by footage of Ukrainian marines taking part in the attack, one flashing a “V” for victory sign.
“The way naval javelins burn Russian armored vehicles in the Donetsk region is a real art,” the 36th Brigade wrote in the title of the video.
The US has provided Ukraine with 8,500 Javelin anti-tank missiles as part of its $46 billion military aid package.
According to the Ukrainian military, its forces have destroyed more than 3,600 enemy tanks over the past 13 months. YouTube/36 OBrMP
According to the latest figures from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, Kiev’s armed forces made good use of Western weapons, destroying some 3,615 enemy tanks and more than 6,970 armored fighting vehicles over the 13 months of the war.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that his country would be able to produce and retrofit more than 1,600 tanks by 2026.
But the Institute for the Study of War think tank was quick to throw cold water at Putin’s rosy prediction, saying it would take at least six years to reach his lofty production target due to Russia’s “limited industrial capacity.”
After struggling with major equipment losses on the battlefield, Russia has recently resorted to taking old, crumbling Cold War-era tanks out of storage and giving them a facelift to make them combat-ready.
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