2023-09-05 06:08:00
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) for the first time lost the Challenger 2 tank supplied by the UK. Russian forces destroyed it near the village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region. This was reported by the telegram channel “Military Chronicle”.
“The first British Challenger-2 tank was destroyed near Rabotino,” the channel writes. The video shows a burning tank on the side of the road. According to official figures, Ukraine has only 13 of these tanks left.
The UK government decided to supply Ukraine with 14 of its Challenger 2 main battle tanks back in January 2023. RT. Military experts explained that they did not pose a significant threat to the Russian army, writes “Tsargrad“. At the end of July, information appeared that the UK had destroyed 43 tanks of this model instead of transferring them to Ukraine. The repair of these machines was deemed uneconomical, according to Life.
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