Ongoing clashes in Luhansk: Ukrainian brigade repels Russian armour
The Luhansk region remains one of the areas where the Russians are showing the most activity and conducting numerous attacks using heavy military equipment. Many of these, however, are unsuccessful, as exemplified by a recent video released by a Ukrainian brigade. The footage shows the types of equipment the invaders have managed to eliminate.
"The Russians are unsuccessfully trying to break through the defence line of the 77th Independent Airmobile Brigade," stated the unit's profile on Telegram.
The Ukrainians added that during these attacks, the Russians use various types of equipment—tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, as well as so-called turtle tanks. Many of these types of cars are also seen with makeshift cages intended to enhance protection against kamikaze drone attacks.
More destroyed russian tanks in the Luhansk region
Observers of the war in Ukraine have already identified several tanks that have been documented as destroyed by the aforementioned Ukrainian brigade. Additional specimens of T-72B and T-72B3, as well as the much less common T-90A tank, have been excluded from further participation in the battles.
Tanks from the T-90 family, developed based on the T-72B, are among the most modern available to Russian units participating in the war in Ukraine. The first of these (the basic T-90 models) were delivered to the Russian army in 1993.
In Ukraine, the most frequently seen models are the T-90 and T-90M. This time, however, a rarer T-90A fell into the hands of the Ukrainians, which has been in Russian service since 2005. Like other tanks in this family, it uses Contact-5 reactive armor, but it features an improved turret and a modernized 2A46M-5 125mm caliber gun adapted for longer shells. Additionally, it has better optoelectronics, the Shtora-1 defense system, and a 1,000 hp engine.
The T-72B is one of the most widespread models in the Russian army from the T-72 family. These tanks measure over 9.4 meters in length and weigh 44,000 kilograms. They are equipped with a 125mm caliber cannon with a rate of fire of about 6-8 rounds per minute, a 7.62mm caliber machine gun, and a 12.7mm caliber machine gun.
The T-72B3, on the other hand, is described as an economical upgrade of the T-72B. The Russians focused on adding the Sosna-U fire control system, improving the optoelectronics, and adapting the loading mechanisms to the anti-tank ammunition from the Svinets family.
