• Ukraine released a video showing the attack on a Russian armored convoy.

• The brigade said the Leopard 2 tank and other weapons destroyed tanks and other vehicles.

• Russia suffered huge tank losses in the war, but this did not stop it from advancing.

New video footage released by Ukraine shows a Leopard 2 tank attacking armored Russian vehicles.

Footage apparently captured by multiple drones and shared by Ukraine’s 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade shows a convoy of Russian vehicles coming down the track and coming under fire, with smoke billowing from some of the vehicles.

Drone footage then shows the soldiers opening fire as they tried to escape.

The brigade said Leopard tank crews, supported by artillery and drones, destroyed 47 soldiers, two tanks, an armored personnel carrier, three combat armored vehicles and a motorcycle.

according to New Voice of UkraineThe 33rd Brigade is fighting in the key hotspot of Kurakhove in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

Business Insider could not verify the footage or when it was taken.

Russia suffered major vehicle losses in Ukraine. According to the open source research project, it lost 695 pieces of equipment in October, including 103 tanks that were destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured. Antelope.

However, Ukraine has also faced problems in using its tanks and has a fairly small fleet; Russia’s larger military is able to use its advantage in equipment and personnel to try to overwhelm Ukraine’s defenses.

A member of the 33rd brigade’s gun crew said in an update posted on the brigade’s Telegram channel this week that Russia had doubled the size of its forces and was putting pressure on the area where the brigade operates.

Both Ukraine and Russia had difficulty using tanks effectively in this war, which turned into a war dominated by drones.

While tanks are designed to withstand attacks, many models are not designed with attacks from above in mind, where even cheap drones can damage or destroy them.

There is Ukraine added additional armor to the most advanced Western tanks, to try to better defend them against such attacks, as well as the heavy artillery used in the war.

A tank loader in the 33rd brigade told the New Voice of Ukraine that the Leopards were crucial to their defense at Kurakhove.

“I’ve heard people say tanks are not that important anymore, artillery is more important for defence,” said the loader nicknamed Boroda.

“I can’t speak for the entire front,” he added, “but we’re definitely deploying more frequently here. We’re not just hitting enemy positions from afar; we’re engaging their armor more often. These close-quarters duels are where the Leopard really shines.”

The brigade’s spokesman, Nazar Voytenkov, told the press that tank-to-tank battles involving Ukrainian Leopards are becoming more frequent.

He also said Russia had not seen any significant gains in the region since February.

Despite this, Russia has slowly begun to seize territory in Ukraine in recent weeks, despite the losses it has suffered.

How Ukraine responds in the long term will likely depend on the actions of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized US aid to Ukraine. The United States has been Ukraine’s biggest supporter throughout the war, and losing its support would have a huge impact.

Some Ukrainian soldiers and outside military experts expressed cautious optimism He said Ukraine could persuade Trump to continue supporting it financially and that moving away from the slow trickle of aid under President Joe Biden’s administration could be good for the country.

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