WATCH the moment clumsy Russian troops drive their £4million tank straight into a ditch where it is easily attacked by Ukrainian drones.
The images, released by the Ukrainian. armyIt is fired through the sights of airborne drones that rain bullets on the enemy.
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It shows a Russian tank lumbering through the mud as Ukrainian bullets hit the vehicle and land around him.
The war machine in the video is understood to be a T-90, a late Soviet main battle tank that costs up to £4 million per vehicle.
The unfortunate Russians then drive him straight into a huge ditch, where he inevitably gets stuck, nose down.
The huge vehicle becomes an easy target and smoke can be seen billowing out as the Ukrainians continue to hit it.
The embarrassing mistake comes as Ukraine continues its surprise counteroffensive in Russia’s Kursk region.
The Ukrainians initially seized part of Russian territory in August, also in a surprise offensive.
That was the first time since World War II that Russian territory was invaded.
Since then, the Russians have responded forcefully, but the Ukrainians had managed to keep 60 percent of the land they gained.
Zelenksy is eager to maintain control of the region because it could prove a valuable bargaining chip in any case. future talks.
Now, in a bold new push, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have attacked the Russians in several directions from the region.
Today President Zelensky said that Russian and North Korean troops had suffered heavy losses.
Ukraine launches surprise offensive in Kursk as Putin faces ‘significant’ losses
“In the battles yesterday and today near a single village, Makhnovka, in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost to a battalion of North Korean infantrymen and Russian paratroopers,” he said.
“This is significant,” he added.
In a statement on Telegram, the Russian Defense Ministry said: “At around nine in the morning Moscow time, to stop the offensive of Russian troops in the direction of Kursk, the enemy launched a counterattack with a composite assault detachment by two tanks, one counter-obstacle vehicle and 12 armored combat vehicles.”
Several Russian military bloggers provided more details about the attack, saying it was launched from the Ukrainian base in Sudza.
They said the soldiers were advancing with armored groups in the direction of the village Bolshoe Soldatskoe and neighboring Berdyn.
The ministry added that Russian forces responded, destroying both tanks, the military engineering vehicle and seven armored fighting vehicles.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said that “there were good news of the Kursk region” and that Russia was “getting what it deserves.”
And Ukraine’s counter-disinformation chief Andriy Kovalenko said in a Telegram post on Sunday: “Russians in Kursk are experiencing great anxiety because they were attacked from several directions and it was a surprise for them.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the Ukrainian occupation of Kursk is “important” for the country.
“His position on Kursk is important because it is certainly something that will influence any negotiations that may take place next year,” Blinken told reporters in Seoul.
“Negotiations on the ceasefire in Ukraine should lead to a fair and lasting outcome”
Russia has deployed North Korean troops to reinforce its counteroffensive in Kursk, but they have suffered heavy losses.
After just two weeks of Koreans on the front lines, Zelenksy said 3,000 of them had been killed or wounded, nearly a third of the estimated 11,000 who were sent into the country.
It is possible that this figure is higher now.
South Korean intelligence reported last month that Kim Jong-Un was preparing more North Korean troops to send to the first line.
Trains of weapons have also been seen rumbling across Russia, sent as a gift from the communist leader.
In another blow to Vlad, a pair of his colonels were reportedly eliminated in a dramatic Storm Shadow missile bombardment by Ukraine.
The deadly weekend drone ambush is said to have killed a Russian lieutenant and a battalion chief who were hiding in a bunker in Kursk.
Lieutenant Colonel Valery Tereshchenko was attacked at the command post along with seven other senior officers.
Inside Putin’s ‘meat grinder’ war
by Patrick Harrington
VLADIMIR Putin will continue to pour troops into his “meat grinder” war in 2025 at such a pace that he will not be able to arm them all, experts have said.
Putin will continue to attract soldiers to the front with propaganda and promises of cash to take more territory from Ukraine this year.
But the tyrant may pay for his arrogance, as experts predict Russia will fall short “sometime in 2025” of enough military equipment to supply its forces.
Some 3,500 Russian tanks and 7,500 armored vehicles have already been knocked out of action.
Russian soldiers were massacred at an increasing rate in 2024, with each of the last five months breaking the record for highest losses ever.
On November 4, Russia lost 2,030 men, the first time during the war that that number exceeded 2,000 in a single day.
Luke Pollard, UK Under-Secretary of Defence, predicted that Russian losses (soldiers killed, wounded or captured) would reach one million within six months.
And Nick Reynolds, a ground war expert at RUSI, warned that Putin’s conscience is not affected by the mass deaths.
Reynolds told The Solar: “Putin is known, historically, for not being particularly moved by human suffering.”
The dictator has a lot of what British Defense Intelligence calls “casualty tolerance.”
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