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Russia Seizes US-Made Abrams-Type Assault Breacher Vehicle From Ukrainian Troops [Video]

The Russian Armed Forces earlier managed to seize Ukraine’s M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle, which was delivered to the Kiev regime as part of the US’ military support.

Russian forces have removed Ukraine’s M1150 assault breacher vehicle (ABV), an armored minefield and obstacle breaching system based on the chassis of the M1 Abrams tank, from the battlefield, a Sputnik correspondent has reported.

The US-supplied ABV was earlier seized by soldiers of the Tsentr (Center) Battlegroup, who managed to “blind” the vehicle by destroying its optics with the help of a first-person view (FPV) drone strike, a Tsentr officer with call sign Volsk told Sputnik.

“After being ‘blinded’, the M1150 changed direction and drove into a minefield, where it was blown up,” the officer said. He described the 70-ton ABV as a vehicle that “gets stuck in our black soil,” which is why it cannot be used in the special military operation.

In a separate development, Tsentr soldiers seized a M88A2 Herculesheavy equipment recovery …

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U.S. Soldier Detained In Russia Had Broken Army Rules, Traveled Via China [Video]

The Pentagon has said that the U.S. Army serviceman who is one of two Americans arrested by Russia in separate cases disclosed on May 7 had violated army rules by traveling to the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, and he had gone there via China.