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Russian T-90M main battle tank destroyed in Kharkiv Oblast

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry released a video on May 10 showing the destruction of one of Russia’s most advanced tanks, the T-90M “Breakthrough”, outside Staryi Saltiv, a town in the oblast. from Kharkiv near the Russian border. The defense targeted the tank with a Swedish Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launcher. “We thank the Swedish people and the king for their help,” the ministry wrote on Twitter. Storyful could not independently confirm which weapon was used against the tank. , which was described by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as “the pride of the Russian tank industry”. the strike took place. However, reports indicate that it happened between May 5 and May 8. The first evidence of the deployment of T-90M in Ukraine appeared on April 25 in a video published by Rosgvardiya (National Guard of Russia). The tank in this video was the second of two T-90Ms confirmed to have been destroyed in Ukraine. The first was documented on May 4 and confirmed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on May 5. Ukrainian officials said this tank was the first T-90M destroyed in Ukraine and that it was hit by an American-made Javelin anti-tank missile. In a Wall Street Journal article on Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces published on May 9, Colonel Roman Hryshchenko, the commander of the Kharkiv-based 127th Territorial Defense Brigade, was quoted as saying that the brigade had “in recent days destroyed a state-of-the-art Russian T-90 tank northeast of Kharkiv using a Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle supplied by Sweden.” On May 7, the British Ministry of Defense said that at least one T-90M had been destroyed in Ukraine.” The T-90M was introduced in 2016 and features upgraded armour, gun upgrade and upgraded satellite navigation systems. Around 100 T-90M tanks are currently in service among Russia’s best-equipped units, including those fighting in Ukraine,” the UK ministry said. “It will take a lot of time and money for Russia to rebuild its armed forces after this conflict,” they added. Credit: Maria Avdeeva via Storyful