The Russian occupation troops use a new armored train " Defense Express reports..

The fact that the Russians use the Yenisei armored train at the front to wage war against Ukraine was the first or one of the first to be reported by the StratCom Telegram channel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. " This scarecrow is now plying the Ukrainian lands, which were temporarily occupied by the orcs. It's time to add a new name to the list of enemy losses as armored trains,"

Defense Express reports that the train was built on the basis of containers, diesel locomotives and rolling stock stolen from Ukrzaliznytsia in the occupied part of Kharkiv region. The fact that the " The declared scheme of the train - two shunting diesel locomotives of the ChME3 type, eight cars (of which four are platforms from the BMP-2 and ZU-23-2).

However, Defense Express experts, having studied the photo of the panzernik, saw many vulnerabilities in it, including an unprotected fuel tank located between the wheelsets..

" This protection with armor plates on a diesel locomotive is more like a “barbecue” on tanks, in the sense that it gives the crew a psychological sense of “security”, but does not withstand a meeting with NLAW or Javelin, or other anti-tank weapons systems, ”says Defense Express.

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Recall that in May in the occupied Melitopol near the meat processing plant on Wednesday, a remote detonation of an armored train of Russian invaders was carried out. As a result, two railway tracks were damaged, the armored train was stopped, and the locomotive with 10 tanks of fuel and lubricants, following the armored train, was also stopped..