{"id":46664,"date":"2022-02-28T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46664"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:32:07","slug":"the-information-of-the-ukrainian-army-on-weak-points-of-russian-military-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/28\/the-information-of-the-ukrainian-army-on-weak-points-of-russian-military-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The information of the Ukrainian Army on weak points of Russian military vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army and people of Ukraine are offering fierce resistance to the Russian military invasion, disrupting the plans laid out by Vladimir Putin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/26\/the-military-vehicles-that-the-russian-army-is-losing-in-its-attack-on-ukraine\/\">The military vehicles that the Russian Army is losing in its attack on Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/24\/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-in-pictures-the-ukrainian-resistance-makes-itself-felt\/\">The Russian invasion of Ukraine in pictures: the Ukrainian resistance makes itself felt<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>That resistance is turning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/28\/la-causa-del-tendal-de-los-tanques-rusos-asi-funciona-un-misil-antitanque-javelin\/\">Javelin missiles (as we saw this morning)<\/a> and other types, but also to less sophisticated and much cheaper weapons. <strong>One of them is a Spanish invention: the famous Molotov cocktail<\/strong>, which was used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War, by legionnaires and against Russian tanks used by the Republican Army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The artifact is very simple to make:<\/strong> it is a glass bottle filled with gasoline and into which a rag is inserted that lights up before it is thrown. <strong>This incendiary explosive was given its current name during the Soviet invasion of Finland (1939-1940), where it also targeted Russian tanks.<\/strong> The name is due to the fact that Stalin's foreign minister, Viacheslav Molotov, had the cynicism to affirm that Soviet aircraft were not dropping bombs on Finland, but food. <a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/el_rinconete\/anteriores\/marzo_11\/14032011_01.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Finnish soldier responded to Molotov: <em>\"If you provide the food, we will provide the cocktail.\"<\/em><\/a> <strong>The Finns resisted with a fierceness and efficiency very reminiscent of the Ukrainians<\/strong>, inflicting heavy casualties on the Red Army.<\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.beer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Pravda Beer Theater factory<\/a>, based in Lviv (in the west of the country), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/tiramillas\/actualidad\/2022\/02\/28\/621cba5de2704eeb3a8b45cf.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has stopped producing beer to make Molotov cocktails<\/a>, decorating its bottles with a label that says \"Putin Huilo\" (Putin Shit). <strong>Yesterday the factory posted this image of their new product<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pravdalviv\/posts\/3177666712522703\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here it provides the account numbers to help them make more Molotov cocktails<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51910316500_f651c1efc1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning, an unofficial account of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has published <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmedForcesUkr\/status\/1498198852930875392\">a series of four sheets to indicate how to disable Russian military vehicles with these incendiary explosives<\/a>, as well as with spike barriers on the ground.<strong> The images are titled \u201c\u0412\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043b\u0438\u0432\u0456 \u043c\u0456\u0441\u0446\u044f \u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0436\u043e\u0457 \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0456\u043a\u0438\u201d (Enemy Vehicle Vulnerabilities):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51910258215_54c29c2055_o.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #7F7261;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture about an armored BTR-82A<\/strong>, pointing out as vulnerable points the wheels, the front windows and hatches, the turret, the side and upper doors and the engine hood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51908669312_9ce373e235_o.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #7F7261;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture about a GAZ Tayfun MRAP<\/strong>, indicating as vulnerable points the wheels, the upper crew and troop hatches, the windshield and the side engine ventilation grille.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51909731443_dc679d404a_o.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #7F7261;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture about a GAZ Tigr MRAP<\/strong>, showing the vulnerable points of the wheels, radiator, top hatches, engine air intake and windshield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51909731448_1d84a79bcc_o.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #7F7261;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture about the military trucks Ural-4320 (above) and Kamaz 4310 (below)<\/strong>, indicating as vulnerable points the wheels, the windshields, the radiators, the fuel tank and the boilers.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Ukraine Weapons Tracker. A 9K33 Osa surface-to-air missile launch vehicle and a Russian Army Kamaz 431 abandoned after an attack by Ukrainian forces.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army and people of Ukraine are offering fierce resistance to the Russian military invasion, disrupting the plans laid out by Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11548],"tags":[16166,7727,16165,7674,16147,16168,10731,12043,16153,15307,16151,14192],"class_list":["post-46664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-armament","tag-9k33-osa","tag-btr-80","tag-gaz-tayfun","tag-gaz-tigr","tag-kamaz-4310","tag-molotov-cocktail","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-army","tag-ural-4320"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}