Video: Ukrainian Leopard Tank Takes Out Russian Armored Vehicle Column

• Ukraine launched a video displaying an assault on a Russian armored convoy.
• The brigade mentioned a Leopard 2 tank and different weaponry destroyed tanks and different automobiles.
• Russia has suffered main tank losses within the battle, however it hasn’t stopped it from advancing.

New video footage launched by Ukraine exhibits a Leopard 2 tank attacking a column of armored Russian automobiles.

The footage, seemingly filmed by a number of drones and shared by Ukraine’s thirty third Separate Mechanized Brigade, exhibits a convoy of Russian automobiles driving down a monitor and coming underneath fireplace, with smoke pouring out of a number of the automobiles.

Drone footage then exhibits troopers being fired at as they attempt to escape.

The brigade mentioned the Leopard tank crew, assisted by artillery and drones, took out 47 troopers, two tanks, an armored personnel provider, three fight armored automobiles, and a bike.

In line with the New Voice of Ukraine, the thirty third brigade is preventing within the main hotspot of Kurakhove, in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

Enterprise Insider was unable to confirm the footage or when it was taken.

Russia has suffered main car losses in Ukraine. In October, it misplaced 695 items of kit, together with 103 tanks that had been destroyed, broken, deserted, or captured, based on open-source analysis venture Oryx.

However Ukraine has additionally encountered issues with utilizing its tanks, and has a notably smaller fleet, with Russia’s bigger navy ready to make use of its benefit in tools and personnel to attempt to overwhelm Ukraine’s defenses.

A gun mount crew member of the thirty third brigade mentioned in an replace posted on the brigade’s Telegram channel this week that Russia had doubled the dimensions of its forces and was urgent within the space the place the brigade was working.

Each Ukraine and Russia have struggled to make use of tanks successfully in what has grow to be a battle dominated by drones.

Whereas tanks are designed to outlive assaults, many fashions will not be designed with assaults from above in thoughts — which is the place even low-cost drones can injury or destroy them.

Ukraine has added additional armor to its most advanced Western tanks, to attempt to defend them higher towards these sorts of assaults, in addition to the heavy artillery used within the battle.

A tank loader within the thirty third brigade informed The New Voice of Ukraine that the Leopards are crucial to their protection in Kurakhove.

The loader, nicknamed Boroda, mentioned “I’ve heard folks say tanks aren’t as essential anymore, that artillery is extra necessary for protection.”

“I am unable to communicate for the entire entrance,” he added, “however right here, we have positively been deploying extra typically. We’re not simply hitting enemy positions from afar; we’re dealing with off with their armor extra incessantly. These close-range duels are the place the Leopard actually shines.”

The brigade’s spokesperson, Nazar Voytenkov, informed the outlet that tank-on-tank battles involving Ukraine’s Leopards had grow to be extra frequent.

He additionally mentioned Russia had not seen any vital features within the space since February.

Even so, Russia has been slowly taking territory in Ukraine over the previous weeks, regardless of struggling losses.

How Ukraine responds in the long term will possible depend upon the actions of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized US assist to Ukraine. The US has been Ukraine’s single largest backer all through the battle, and dropping its help would have a big impact.

Some Ukrainian troopers and outdoors navy specialists have expressed cautious optimism that Ukraine may persuade Trump to proceed to help it financially and {that a} potential change away from a gradual drip of assist underneath President Joe Biden’s administration could possibly be good for the nation.