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June 13 (Reuters) – Russia’s defense ministry on Tuesday released video footage of what it says were German-made Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley fighting vehicles captured by Russian forces in a battle with Ukrainian forces.
Reuters could not immediately verify the location and timing of the footage, which the defense ministry said was filmed on the Zaporizhzhia front in southern Ukraine, one of the areas where Ukrainian forces attempted a counterattack.
What appeared to be two German-made Leopard tanks were shown in the footage, which was released on the ministry’s official channel on the Telegram messaging application, along with two damaged US Bradley fighting vehicles.
In a brief statement accompanying the footage, the ministry called the captured military hardware “our trophies” and the video said soldiers from the Vostok (East) military group inspected the equipment.
It noted that some of the vehicles’ engines were still running, evidence it said of how quickly their Ukrainian crews had fled.
Reuters cannot verify such battlefield accounts.
Ukraine said on Monday that its troops had done so
recaptured
a string of villages held by Russian troops along a front about 100 km (60 mi) to the south-east since the start of the long-anticipated counter-offensive last week.
Unconfirmed reports from Russian military bloggers suggest that Russian troops may have recaptured some of the territory they ceded in recent days. (Reporting by Andrew Osborn and Felix Light Editing by Gareth Jones)
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