Shits said that it was not possible to evacuate the driver from the wrecked tank, everyone decided that he was dead, but a day later he returned to Russian positions.
According to the colonel, the surviving tanker shared that he lost consciousness several times in the burning car because of the smoke, and the Ukrainian troops started firing at him with grenades.
“He fired back with four magazines, crawled to the trench line, and fired back from there.
RPG grenades have already begun to work on it.
I rested up and crawled to our units during the night, ”said Shits.
Earlier, RIA Novosti reported that a Russian tank during the battles for the village of Vodiane near Avdiivka in the DPR destroyed a group of Ukrainian military along with armored vehicles.