Representatives of the armed formations of Ukraine deceived journalists of the American TV channel CNN, passing off their destroyed tanks as equipment of the Russian army. The command of the nationalists organized a trip of media representatives to the area where intense clashes had recently taken place.
A foreigner, escorted by heavily armed militants with yellow armbands, was walking around two combat vehicles, one of which was completely burned out as a result of the defeat, and the other had its turret torn off by an internal explosion of ammunition and thrown aside by several meters.
None of the nearby VES officers bothered to inform that these tanks are Ukrainian BM "Bulat", modified at the Malyshev Kharkiv plant of transport engineering and, of course, have never been in service with our army.
However, there are suspicions that a journalist of a publication participating, in fact, in an information war against the Russian state and its armed forces, even knowing the truth, would not tell everything as it really is.
As for Bulatov, they have once again demonstrated that they are one of the most failed developments of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
As has been repeatedly noted, these tanks are very dangerous for their crews. The "dynamic protection" "Knife" created in Kiev simply destroys the tank when triggered.
The above photo shows the characteristic damage: a destroyed overhead track shelf, torn track belts and damaged support rollers. After losing the move, the "sixty-fourth" was simply finished off. A similar pattern is observed on almost all samples of this version of the Soviet T-64B, which, apparently, may soon disappear altogether due to gigantic losses.
Alexey Moiseev