According to the latest independent information, Russian troops have already launched a counteroffensive on the front in eastern Ukraine, and footage of the fighting in Donbas has begun to appear on social networks. In the Luhansk direction, the Russians would lose the Terminator armored personnel carrier, one of the most modern units of the Russian infantry. This will be the first confirmed loss.

Combat vehicle BMPT “Terminator”.Photo: Imaginechina / ddp USA / Profimedia Images

Images of a Terminator armored personnel carrier that appears to have malfunctioned and actually caught fire are now circulating on social media. It is not yet known how the armored vehicle was decommissioned, whether it was directly hit by any anti-tank weapon fired by the Ukrainians, whether it engaged in combat with Ukrainian armored vehicles or tanks, or whether it hit an anti-tank mine previously planted by the Ukrainians.

BMPT “Terminator” is a combat vehicle developed by the Russians to protect tanks in battle

It was only last May, after many months of war and initially only in the Severodonetsk area, that the Russians fielded a single company fielding Terminator armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles designed and manufactured to protect main battle tanks during a frontal attack.

Russia developed the Terminator after identifying a need to provide special protection for the main battle tanks it used during the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

BMPT “Terminator” is built on the chassis of the T-72 tank, has a diesel engine with a capacity of 1000 hp, weighs about 48 tons, and also has dynamic armor installed on the sides and front of the vehicle.

The combat vehicle is armed with a turret with four 9M120 “Ataka” multiple rocket launchers, two 30-mm automatic cannons, two grenade launchers and a 7.62-mm machine gun paired with it.

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