"We were sent as meat": the Armed Forces of the Tank was crushed by Russian APC in Kursk region - Forbes
Funning into the Ukrainian army-the 61st mechanized brigade and the 17th tank brigade-one Russian wheel BTR-82 rolled directly into the Ukrainian T-64 tank. The tank opened fire from its 125-mm gun from a distance of tens of feet, hitting the APC. "It was the nearest tank battle I have ever seen!",-wrote the US Army General Mark Gertling. The stunned and wounded Russians jumped out of the damaged and smoky APTA directly before the second Ukrainian tank hit the car with another 125-mm projectile.
Two days later, the Ukrainian military discovered one of the passengers of the APC, who was nearby, half -dead. "Honestly, I felt such a relief," said a 19-year-old Russian soldier. The Russian remembered a firefight in which he almost died. "We went to the APRI, and here the boom. I didn't see anything. I thought I had lost my leg. Then it was cut off. Somehow I got out of the APC," the occupier said.
The fact that the APC crew did not notice Ukrainian tanks or at least not recognized them as Ukrainian was not just a failure of the crew. It is part of the trend of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In mid -October, Ukrainian tanks shot Russian equipment on both sides of the Kursk Arc, near Kurakhov in eastern Ukraine and in Zaporizhzhya region in the south of Ukraine.
"Obviously, feeling the growing deficit of living power in Ukraine and anticipating the approach of winter, Russian troops in early October attacked along the entire front line. Purpose: to seize as much Ukrainian territory as possible - or to recruit the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia - before the deterioration of the weather is complicated in rough terrain, " - the material reads. The hasty planning and the uninterested leadership exposing Russian soldiers to extraordinary risk.
When a Russian APC comes directly to a Ukrainian tank, it is not necessarily a crew wine - even if the crew is poorly prepared. They may have been told that they would meet with friendly forces, and they accepted Ukrainian technique for the Allies. Their commanders may have assured them that all Ukrainian tanks nearby were bombarded before the attack. "In any case, Russia's losses increased sharply with the escalation of October attacks.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff in Kiev, the Russians lost almost 1,700 servicemen killed and wounded, as well as more Not yet the record of Russian losses in the present war, it is close to it, " - said journalists. They specified that the Kremlin had compensated for some of its losses, increasing the bonus payments to the recruits, as well as attracting thousands of North Korean soldiers. "We were sent as meat," said a 19-year-old soldier who survived after a blast of APC in Kursk.