The Ukrainian military came to the ground to witness one of its greatest strikes of the war: the destruction of a Russian tank with a well-aimed strike that lifted the commander of the combat vehicle dozens of meters into the air, drawing comparisons to the famous Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. .

The Russian tanker has been compared to Yuri GagarinPhoto: video shooting

The original video dates back to September, when a Russian tank, which for unknown reasons was flying a black flag, was hit and destroyed by a Javelin anti-tank system from a distance of 730-750 meters.

As you can see on the footage, the impact caused a catastrophic explosion of the Russian combat vehicle, which lifted its commander, who is sitting in the tower, tens of meters into the air, eventually landing through the roof of a nearby building.

The recording caused a lot of irony in social networks, some commentators joked that the Russian tanker was trying to imitate Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.

It is also noteworthy that the spectacular explosion occurred despite the fact that the Javelin missile hit the tank head-on, and not from above, as happens during most catastrophic explosions of ammunition on board Russian combat vehicles, hence the jokes of the Ukrainians. about the “turret throwing competition”.

A significant strike by the Ukrainian military in Kherson

Currently, the Ukrainian military went to the scene and found the Russian tank at the place of its destruction, talked to the owner of the house where the Russian tanker landed, and filmed the scene where it fell through the roof:

The strike took place in the village of Pravdyne, in the Kherson region, and not in Kharkiv, as some observers of the war in Ukraine confuse. This village in the south of the country was liberated by Ukrainian armed forces on November 10, a day before Kyiv troops also entered the regional capital.

The Ukrainian army launched a long-awaited counteroffensive in the south of the country on August 29 after several months of strikes on the rearguard and support lines of Russian troops.

On November 11, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had completed the withdrawal of its troops from Kherson on the eastern bank of the Dnieper shortly after the collapse of a strategic bridge across the Dnieper.

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