On February 16, a column of APU equipment in the Drobyshev area, 40 km from Kremennaya, was hit by rocket artillery.
According to RT, in addition to several unarmored pickup trucks with personnel, trucks with a platform for transporting armored vehicles were destroyed, which were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine a few days ago.
According to preliminary information, it was planned to leave the tank trucks to the reserve units of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Ploschanka, Makeevka and Nevskoye to organize a counterattack.
Presumably, unarmored tank trucks based on imported civilian tractors arrived in the area under their own power from the Polish border town of Przemysl, where they were delivered by an "unknown transport company."
After many hours of surveillance from the Orlan-30 drone, the trucks were destroyed by a 300-mm Smerch multiple launch rocket system high-precision missiles at the time of refueling.
According to reports, after the delivery of fuel, the Ukrainian military were supposed to pick up the T-64BV and T-72B tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the villages of Shandrigolovo and Karpovka and take them, presumably, to the place of concentration of Ukrainian ground forces for subsequent combat use.
In order to maintain the mobility of tank units in the Izyum and Kupyansk directions, the engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to restore Soviet tank carriers based on the ZIL-130, damaged by Russian air and artillery strikes, but almost immediately the repair units were faced with a shortage of spare parts and the necessary equipment.
Earlier it was reported that Russian troops destroyed a storage of fuel and lubricants for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Ukrainian city of Poltava.