In the video, taken by the Russian tankers themselves, you can see how they ran into a mine, due to which they were left without a combat vehicle, although it was equipped with an anti-mine plow.

The footage was taken by the crew of a Russian army T-72B tank, who apparently did not expect to face such a problem after equipping their combat vehicle with a KMT-7 anti-mine plow, although the problems of Vladimir Putin’s troops with landmines are already well known.

Some netizens question whether the plow should have been wider to fulfill its role, but as seen in the freeze frame at 00:20, it is the plow that hits the mine, not the tank itself.

However, after the incident, the combat vehicle was disabled, as evidenced by a photo that appeared on social networks.

The new video is notable in that, while there have been many previous videos of tanks, armored vehicles and other Russian military equipment coming at me, this appears to be the first footage captured by Moscow’s own military in their vehicle.

A separate video, which the Ukrainian military shared on social media in late November, showed what happened to an anti-mine armored vehicle that Ukraine received from Turkey after it hit a mine.

The administrators of OSINTtechnical, one of the most famous pages that monitor combat and military equipment used in the war in Ukraine, noted at the time that videos and photos have recently appeared on social networks that indicate that the Ukrainian army is also beginning to conduct combat operations actions have problems with landmines by invading forces.

Ukraine condemns “mine terror”

Last week, in one of his speeches before the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that he is convinced that “mine terror” will be one of the accusations against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine.

“I am sure. This will be among the accusations against Russia of aggression – mine terror, which is even more cruel and mean than missile terror, because there is no anti-mine system to destroy at least part of the threat, as our air defense does,” Zelensky said. in his video message last Thursday.

His comments came after he announced that he had posthumously awarded four policemen who were killed by landmines in the Kherson region, where the Russians completed their withdrawal to the east bank of the Dnieper on November 11.

In one of its assessments of the development of the conflict in Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense in early August charged that Russian forces had also placed “butterfly mines” in Ukraine, which are known to cause high casualties among children who mistake them for toys from their color and shape.

“PFM-1s were used with devastating effect in the Soviet-Afghan war, where they are said to have maimed large numbers of children who mistook them for toys,” the Ministry of Defense in London recalled on August 8.

“It is very likely that the Soviet-era reserves used by Russia have degraded over time, and the mines are now extremely unreliable and unpredictable. This poses a threat to both the local population and humanitarian demining operations,” the British assessment concluded.

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