Joseph Trevithick
Security, Europe
Upgraded and ready for war.
In any war, certain weapons come to symbolize one side in the fighting, specific tactics or political factors. In that spirit, a specific tank has become the icon of Russia’s secret war in Ukraine.
On June 3, 2016, Ukrainian blogger “sled_vzayt” posted a batch of evidence showing advanced T-72B3 tanks — as well as other armored vehicles and heavy weapons — and their Russian crews in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region and right across the border in Russia.
While the post uses numerous photographs to identify specific tanks, the vehicles themselves offer some of the clearest proof that the …read more
Source: The National Interest
