Ukraine Tank Friendly Fire – Without any concrete evidence, the Russian media report, however, concluded that the conduct of what it believes was a Ukrainian tank and the deliberate shooting “on friendly forces” caused several problems for Ukraine. However, it stopped short of elaborating.
The report claimed that the shot was fired by the tank at a very close range and did not appear to be an accident. According to the report, the Ukrainian territorial defense forces were busy performing a specific mission, while a Ukrainian army battle tank stood nearby.
Ukraine Tank Friendly Fire
A video showing Russian tank reportedly blowing up another Russian armoured vehicle has been going viral on social media. The video was captured by a Ukrainian surveillance drone near the village of Dmytrivka near the capital Kyiv on March 31.
“The Ukrainian job is far from done and the Prime Minister has directed that the UK provides even more in support of this next phase of the conflict. It was an honor to show Minister Havrylov and his generals the kit the UK hopes to provide next and to discuss some new weapons,” Armed Forces Minister James Heappey was quoted as saying.
The intensification of Russian troops in the east of Ukraine would allow Russia to concentrate its efforts in those areas of the country and consequently unify the region of Donbas, now recognised as Russian, with Crimea, as suggested by military analysts such as US Major General James “Spider” Marks.
The drone footage shows images of a Russian tank being accidentally blown up by another Russian armoured vehicle. The video shows Russian troops near a village west of Kyiv as they were preparing to leave the capital following their unsuccessful assault on the Ukrainian capital.
Earlier in the week, UK defense ministry officials received a Ukrainian delegation, headed by Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Havrylov, in Salisbury Plain Training Area to discuss the challenges the Ukrainian troops are facing and look into the possibilities of scaling up London’s military assistance for Kyiv.
The tank could be seen firing a cannon, hitting several soldiers in front of it, as evidenced by the available footage online. The shooting at the troops did not appear to be an accident, based on the fact that machine-gun fire was also subsequently heard from the tank a few seconds after the cannon shot.
Other war trackers were debating that the attack was carried out by a T-72B3 tank. There is, however, a third narrative attached to the same viral video which claims that the Ukrainian crew were shot at by Russians as they failed to identify that the tank approaching was hostile.
A Russian news outlet has claimed that it has information that the crew of a Ukrainian tank launched an unprovoked attack on its personnel, which it says has been substantiated by video footage. The attack reportedly took place in Kharkiv. The EurAsian Times has not been able to verify the claims.
As the conflict is being ferociously fought, the Ukrainian President has warned that Russia’s offensive in the Eastern part of the country is going to intensify manifold. He has also pleaded with the international community for more lethal aid.
Instead of waiting to be hit by incoming rounds, the M1A1 tank crews began firing in the direction of the bursting explosions, not realizing they were firing upon their own forces. The end result was gruesome and tragic. Six U.S. soldiers lost their lives, 25 soldiers were wounded, five M1A1s and five Bradley Fighting Vehicles were destroyed. In total, 21 U.S. soldiers were killed during the Gulf War.
The UK has trained over 22,000 military personnel in Ukraine since 2015 through Operation Orbital. In 2021, the military support was reinforced, when London and Kyiv signed a bilateral treaty that allocated 1.7 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) to boost Ukraine’s naval capabilities.
Due to a lack of clarity in the video, the uniform of the troops shot at close range could not be identified. However, many alleged that the uniform appears to be Russian and could not make out if the tank approaching them, a T-72, was their own.
On July 20, at Fort Bliss, an M1A2 Abrams Tank accidentally fired upon another tank during a training exercise. The Defence Blog was the first to report the incident, claiming that an M1A2 Abrams shot a round that impacted another tank 2,600 meters away. The incident took place during a tank qualification training exercise.
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According to the Defence Blog, because it was a training exercise, the tanks were shooting the M1002 multi-purpose training round. The benefit of this round is that it behaves just like its combat counterpart, the M830A1, but has a shorter range, ideally making it a safer round for training.
In the course of the visit, the UK army’s 3rd Division and the Royal Marines showed off a range of equipment and variants of further military support, including defensive missile systems and protected mobile vehicles, the statement added.
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After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the UK supplied Kyiv with more than 4,000 anti-tank weapons, at least 16,000 missiles, including next-generation lightweight anti-tank systems and Javelin missiles. On March 24, the UK provided another 25 million pounds in support of the Ukrainian troops.
On the dark early morning of February 27, the Army’s 3rd Brigade was engaging units of an Iraqi Republican Guard Armored division as it pushed ahead in southern Iraq. The U.S. tanks in the front of the column made contact with Iraqi units, firing rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and small-arms at the Iraqi tanks. Due to the thick armor of the tanks, the RPG rounds were exploding harmlessly on the tanks’ sides.
The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by intense information warfare. In what could be seen as an attempt at psychological warfare, a video of an ambush has gone viral on social media, triggering a heated debate among military experts and netizens.
However, the identity of the troops that were attacked in the video could not be independently corroborated by EurAsian Times due to a lack of clarity, owing to the distance from which the video was recorded.
“We are exploring options for future military support, including working with the UK Defence industry and our Ukrainian counterparts into the longer term to ensure the equipment supplied continues to be both effective and sustainable for their heroic armed forces,” UK Defense Procurement Minister Jeremy Quin was quoted as saying by the ministry.
As the U.S. Army units were pressing on, they were surrounded by Iraqi Republican Guard troops that were hiding in trenches. The U.S. tanks were exposed to a heavy barrage of enemy fire. Fortunately, the enemy attack proved to be no match for the U.S. armor. Yet, the tanks that were one to two miles back in the column, were observing these events through thermal sights. To them, the RPGs exploding on the outside of the U.S. M1A1 Abrams tanks looked like cannon fire from enemy tanks.
Oryx, a military and intelligence blog which keeps a count of Russia’s military losses in Ukraine based on photos from the warzone, says the Russian military has lost more than 2,000 armoured vehicles and 460 tanks.
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