A video posted on social media on Tuesday shows another successful strike by the Azov Regiment using the Javelin anti-tank system after the battalion was re-formed following the surrender of Mariupol.

Ukraine Weapons Tracker was unable to determine the location of the strike, but the Euromaidan Press website noted on Monday that fighters from the Azov Regiment destroyed two Russian BMP-3 armored vehicles, one with a drone and the other with a tank, in southern Zaporizhzhia. region of Ukraine.

Although this attack is using the Javelin system, it is likely that it happened in the same region. And during this attack, the Ukrainian military also appears to have destroyed Russian armored vehicles.

Fighters from the Azov Regiment surrendered in mid-May in Mariupol after defending the Azovstal plant, the last Ukrainian stronghold in the port city on the Sea of ​​Azov, in a siege that drew international media attention.

Later in May, the reformation of the “Azov” regiment took place in Kharkiv, and several videos with the new unit appeared on social networks.

Military “Azov”, declared in Russia as terrorists

On Tuesday, Russia’s Supreme Court declared the regiment a “terrorist group,” which would allow its soldiers to be tried only for taking part in hostilities, a violation of international prisoner-of-war law.

Members of an organization recognized by the court as terrorist in Russia are subject to criminal liability. Thus, its leaders are subject to imprisonment for a term of 15 to 20 years and a fine of up to 1 million rubles, and for ordinary participants – imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years with a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles.

Last week, the Russian embassy in the UK published an extremely scathing message claiming that “members of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion deserve to die by hanging”.

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