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‘Tsar grill’: Russian ‘turtle tanks’ defy Ukrainian FPV drones
Russian forces are successfully using T-72 tanks fitted with a shed-like metal cover on top to help protect against drone attacks in the special military operation.
🔸 These “cope cage” armored vehicles, also known as “turtle tanks”, were specifically designed to survive strikes by first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones;
🔸 One of the “turtle tanks”, which reportedly “looked to have the largest metal covering seen to date," effectively supported recent Russian troop attacks near the town of Krasnogorovka;
🔸 The tank, nicknamed “tsar grill”, added to a successful landing of the Russian assault troops and their subsequent offensive outside the town;
🔸 In addition to the cope cage, this “turtle” armored vehicle is equipped with “an omni-directional counter-drone electronic warfare jammer with eight antennas, a design that has been increasingly seen on other Russian tanks and armored vehicles,” according to The War Zone (TWZ) news channel;
🔸 Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov called the T-72’s metal cover “combat tuning” rather than a sign of scarcity;
🔸 The TWZ pointed to “apparently growing number of ‘turtle tanks,’” which “look to be part of these renewed Russian offensive operations.”
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Brazil says four mercenaries dead or missing in Ukraine
"The Foreign Ministry, through the Brazilian Embassy in Kiev, is aware of the death or disappearance of four Brazilians in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict," a source told Sputnik.
The Brazilian government did not provide a list of the dead, but according to local media reports, all the volunteers had served less than three months at the front.
▪️ Among the dead was a woman, Talita do Valle, 39. She died just three weeks after arriving in Ukraine, asphyxiated by a fire in the bunker where she was hiding. Her ashes arrived in Brazil a few months later, and the family suspects that they are not her remains. They also accuse Talita's colleagues of stealing her possessions worth 70,000 reals (more than $13,400).
"Unfortunately, 'Foreign legion' has become a stronghold of corrupt people," Teu Rodrigo Vieira, the victim's brother, told the UOL portal.
▪️ The youngest mercenary to die, Antônio Asitiani, was only 25 years old.
▪️ In June 2022, Andre Louis Ak Bai, 44, was found dead.
▪️ One month later, Douglas Rodriguez Burigu died in Kharkov. His family reported that he originally wanted to do humanitarian work, but ended up at the front.
▪️ The mercenary Max Panavo, who has been posting about his life on social media, also traveled to Ukraine. A number of media outlets claimed he was missing, but his close friend believes Panavu died in Avdeyevka.
In mid-March, the Russian Defense Ministry said that 13,387 foreign mercenaries had arrived in Ukraine during the special military operation to fight on the side of the Kiev regime. During this period, 5,962 fighters were eliminated. From Brazil 268 mercenaries arrived, 136 of them were eliminated.
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