Hard-to-understand new video shows Russian soldiers driving their armored vehicle through a mine, even as two other abandoned tanks appear to indicate imminent danger.

The footage shows an infantry fighting vehicle driving through a mine and trying to ram between two disabled armored vehicles. Russian soldiers in armored vehicles quickly jump out of it after the explosion, with two falling to the ground immediately afterwards, although it is not known whether they were wounded or trying to hide.

Military analyst Rob Lee says the footage offers a good clue as to why the Russians are sitting on their armored vehicles, citing numerous videos that have surfaced on social media showing Ukrainian soldiers hitting Russian armored vehicles with soldiers on top parts their.

The new video is very similar to the one that surfaced in July, this one showing a Russian tank trying to drive through at least 4 abandoned tanks and hitting a mine, exploding loudly.

One possibility is that the armored vehicle in the footage that has now surfaced on social media is trying to escape Ukrainian artillery, as was the case with another recently released showing a Russian tank falling into a stream while at sea.

Russian problems with armored personnel carriers

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a report released on Tuesday morning, estimated that since the start of the “special operation” on February 24, they destroyed 4,152 Russian armored personnel carriers and 1,880 tanks. However, these figures should be treated with caution as they cannot be independently verified.

But even the director of the Center for Strategic Analysis in Moscow, a military think tank close to the Russian Defense Ministry, explained in a recent interview that the Russian military does not have modern armor, apart from other important combat vehicles.

Ruslan Pukhov compared the situation in Ukraine to gladiator battles, where “one fights with a short sword and a shield, and the other with a trident and a net”: the Ukrainian armed forces consist mainly of infantry and artillery, while the Russians use armored vehicles. vehicles “that are not equipped with modern, really effective protection.”

“Conventionally speaking, the Ukrainians are on the defensive, they have a large number of infantry and artillery. We must break through the undermanned front line with vulnerable tanks and armored vehicles. Now the Russian side is trying to solve this problem in Donbas with a large amount of artillery, but as you can see, things are going very slowly,” he said.

Pukhov also criticized the armored vehicles of the elite Airborne Forces, stating that “their aluminum armored vehicles are generally easy to hit, and they (Russian paratroopers) have fewer other weapons at their disposal than motorized infantry.”

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