As the Ukrainian soldiers, keeps fighting against the Russian invasion, social media applications keep broadcasting the conflict in real-time. A video of a Ukrainian farmer reportedly towing away a Russian military tank is providing much respite from the grim news of intensifying fighting between the armies of Ukraine and Russia. According to the Indian Express, recently article “Netizens cheer as video of Ukrainian farmer ‘stealing’ Russian tank surfaces online” by Trends Desk.

The undated video shows a tractor towing away what looks like a Russian MTLB (multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armored tracked vehicle). It might sound funny, but this Invasion turns into a disaster at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, many main battle tanks, and APC (Armored personal carriers) got abandoned beside the roads and highway as they were out of fuel. The Ukrainian Soldiers and Civilians just captured all those military equipment that was worth millions of dollars without anything.

According to Vice recent article “Russian Influencer Post TikTok Showing How to Drive ‘Abandoned’ APCs” by Matthew Gault. A Russian influencer has gone viral on TikTok for a video explaining how to drive a Russian armored personnel carrier (APC). The video of Tuman in an APC is a year old. The influencer is called Nastya Tuman, a car mechanic in Russia. According to a profile on Yandex, she learned to drive at the age of 18 and began working on cars because she was tired of mechanics ripping her off. Tuman’s video comes at a time when reports are flooding social media about Russian soldiers running out of fuel or outright abandoning tanks and APCs in Ukraine. On Feb. 28, Russia’s state telecommunications regulator demanded that TikTok take steps to censor military content on its platform. The video went viral on Twitter Monday with some describing it as footage of a Ukrainian explaining how to pilot abandoned Russian military vehicles. That’s not quite what’s going on. On February 23, 2021, she posted a video on Instagram of her driving a BTR-series APC in honor of Defender of the Fatherland Day. The short video walks through the basics of starting the APC and briefly shows her driving it.

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“Netizens cheer as video of Ukrainian farmer ‘stealing’ Russian tank surfaces online”

“Russian Influencer Post TikTok Showing How to Drive ‘Abandoned’ APCs”