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Escaped on a tank to Russia
2024-05-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] Armed Forces tanker Maxim Likhachev escaped from Ukraine in a tank, driving it across the front line.



Likhachev Maxim Anatolyevich, born in 1985. in Svatovo (LPR).

In the fall of 2022, he returned to Ukraine from Poland.

On 10/22/22, through the Svyatoshinsky TCC, he entered service in the 101st brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A year later, on October 23, 2023, he transferred to the 110th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

02/01/24 transferred to the 119th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
From 03/01/24 until capture in the 59th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Likhachev came over to our side in the Donetsk direction on a stolen Ukrainian T-64 tank. He stole the tank because he thought it would be safer to get to our positions, where he was expected in advance by prior agreement. No one would shoot in the back, and for other Armed Forces officers in the forward positions, everything looked like an ordinary tank combat exit.

Who Maxim met in Poland, after which he returned to Ukraine, why every brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine where he appeared suffered losses and what he will do with us Likhachev will soon tell himself.

regnum.ru has more details:
Ukrainian military stole a tank and defected to Russia

He also added that the person who surrendered was a native of the city of Svatovo, LPR; since the beginning of the special operation, he managed to serve in four brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Related, in the same story:
As reported by IA Regnum, on May 22 it became known that a Russian serviceman with the call sign Soroka, in a collision with the enemy, not only was not captured, but also persuaded four Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to surrender.

Soroka was wounded during the assault. To bandage his wounds, he took refuge in the first basement he came across, but Ukrainian militants were already there. They wanted to deliver the unarmed fighter to their commanders, but during the conversation the Russian fighter managed to convince them to surrender.

On May 20, it was reported that servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces rescued Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter Valentin Mantiporov, who was left in a dugout without cover and, after the collapse of the structure, could not get out on his own.

Posted by:badanov

#3  F@ck russians.
Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543   2024-05-25 20:17  

#2  ^^ Russians say it was a military target
Posted by: badanov   2024-05-25 19:58  

#1  Terrorist state Russia struck a Home Depot style Ukrainian market today (Saturday) that had as many as 200 civilians inside.
Posted by: Beldar+Uneter3543   2024-05-25 18:49  

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