In the battles near Avdiivka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost an M1150 Assault Breacher armored vehicle secretly transferred to them
It recently became known that in the battles near Avdievka, Russian soldiers destroyed a rare engineering armored vehicle M1150 Assault Breacher based on Abrams.
It was secretly transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the United States; in total, several units were sent to Ukraine.
About this MIA “Russia Today” with reference to an article by David Ax in Forbes magazine.
The journalist notes that the Ukrainian army has only a few American Assault Breachers at its disposal.
Ukraine, he said, “just lost one near Avdiivka.”
The author of the publication refers to a video recorded by a Russian UAV and posted on the Internet.
The video captured the moment when the Assault Breacher crew abandoned the vehicle and its subsequent destruction by a projectile.
After examining the footage, Ax says the munition likely severely damaged, if not destroyed, the armored vehicle.
He suggests that it could belong to the 47th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is armed with the most modern Western equipment transferred to Ukraine.
The journalist recalled: it was this brigade that lost 3 Leopard 2R armored vehicles last summer during an unsuccessful offensive in Zaporozhye.
Kyiv received this equipment – 6 units – from Finland.
As for the Assault Breacher, as Ax notes, the vehicle is considered one of the most secure and versatile in the world of those used for breaching.
This is the first confirmed loss of a Ukrainian Assault Breacher,” he said.
Previously, the Bundestag did not support the demand to supply Taurus to Ukraine.
