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Military bloggers are already calling what happened yesterday in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast the “biggest bang” of the war. It is doubtful whether it was the largest, but the explosion of a Russian tank hit by a Ukrainian anti-tank missile near Marinka was enormous. Experts speak of a “huge explosion”.

The images, believed to be taken by a Ukrainian drone and published by a blogger named @Romanov92, show a T-54/55 tank, an early Soviet model, crashing into a row of trees on flat terrain. . There are believed to be Ukrainian trenches in the trees, some of which have already been blown open by artillery fire.

«The second strongest army in Ukraine»

The tank is on its way to this target. Suddenly there is a smaller explosion that brings the vehicle to a stop. Then a second explosion occurs, followed by a huge fireball. Experts suspect that the tank probably first hit a mine and then was hit by a Ukrainian anti-tank missile. The authenticity of the recordings has not yet been verified.

The intensity of the explosion can be explained by the fact that the T-55 was loaded with a large amount of explosives. Military bloggers speak of six tons of TNT. The vehicle was controlled via a remote control apparently pre-installed in the tank.

It is not the first time that the Russians have used these so-called VBIEDs (vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices). Experts interpret the proceedings as a sign of the growing helplessness of Russian troops, whose commander-in-chief Vladimir Putin likes to praise his army as the “second strongest army in the world”. In contrast, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken recently called it the “second strongest army in Ukraine”.

(t-online, cc)