Ukraine’s emergency services have pulled a sunken Russian main battle tank from a river in eastern Ukraine.
A Russian T-72B3 main battle tank has been submerged in a river in the Sumy region since the beginning of the invasion. Three crewmen died in a flooded tank.
“A month later, their bodies were recovered by Ukraine’s emergency services,” Defense correspondent for The Kyiv Independent, Illia Ponomarenko, said on Twitter.
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The tweet, which included an image of a “submerged” T-72B3, showed a crew of tanks that had died from rolling off a fragile bridge and falling into a river. It is worth mentioning that the Russians left their comrades in their arms, who drowned in the water.
This Russian T-72 just fell off a flimsy bridge into a river in the Sumy region.
The crew of 3 drowned inside the tank.
A month later, their bodies were recovered by Ukraine’s emergency services. pic.twitter.com/F0r5Oy5Mwd– Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) April 1, 2022
NATO estimates the number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine since the invasion began at between 7,000 and 15,000. That higher estimate roughly equates to the number of Soviet soldiers killed in more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan.
