A new video posted on social media captured a rare tank-vs-tank battle, showing a Ukrainian combat vehicle fortunately destroying a Russian tank with a single shot.

The Ukrainian tank quickly disabled the Russian onePhoto: video shooting

The footage from the drone shows how the Ukrainian tank is approaching along the road destroyed by the Russians, which is not very visible in the footage. Then, at 00:27, you can see how a Ukrainian tank escapes from a Russian shell and lands a short distance in front of the “Kyiv” combat vehicle.

Then, literally a fraction of a second later, the Russian tank is effectively rammed by the Ukrainians and immediately catches fire.

Interestingly, the Ukrainian tank in the footage is the T-64BV, an old Soviet-made tank that was recently modernized in Ukraine.

T-64 tanks entered the Soviet armed forces in the 1960s to replace the T-62 model. Ukraine inherited more than 2,000 T-64 tanks after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with more than 1,000 of them in storage before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” on February 24.

In August 2019, the Ukrainian arms concern Ukroboronprom reported that its plant in Lviv had supplied the country’s Armed Forces with more than 100 such modernized tanks.

Improvements included infrared vision equipment for the entire crew, dynamic armor for the tank’s turret, a satellite navigation unit, and a digital radio developed under license from Motorola that provides communications up to 70 kilometers away.

It is reported that the Russians lost more than a third of their tanks in Ukraine

The destroyed Russian tank is a T-72B, a variant upgraded in 1985 to carry rocket fire of the T-72 tank, which entered service with the Soviet armed forces in 1969.

The T-72 tank and its variants are one of the most common heavy combat vehicles used in the war in Ukraine.

According to the Military Balance 2021 database, at the start of its full-scale invasion in February, Russia had about 3,330 battle tanks (2,840 in the army, 330 in the marines, and 160 in the airborne forces).

According to Oryx, an online investigative project that documents equipment losses during the Russian war, Moscow’s forces have lost at least 994 tanks through September 1 alone.

But that estimate is based on confirmed hits through video footage, photos and publicly available information, and the number is likely to be much higher.

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