{"id":50078,"date":"2023-01-16T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50078"},"modified":"2024-01-16T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T23:11:01","slug":"a-destroyed-russian-tank-is-disassembled-and-sold-to-help-ukrainian-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/16\/a-destroyed-russian-tank-is-disassembled-and-sold-to-help-ukrainian-families\/","title":{"rendered":"A destroyed Russian tank is disassembled and sold to help Ukrainian families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the current Russian invasion, Ukraine has managed to capture hundreds of tanks from the invaders. One of them is going to provide great help to Ukrainian families.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/01\/russia-ended-2022-reaching-the-symbolic-number-of-1600-tanks-lost-in-ukraine\/\">Russia ended 2022 reaching the symbolic number of 1,600 tanks lost in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/26\/russias-tank-losses-in-ukraine-some-data-from-2021-to-verify-hoy-serious-they-are\/\">Russia's tank losses in Ukraine: some data from 2021 to verify how serious they are<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Kraken Special Unit of the Ukrainian Army has released a video today explaining the fate of <strong>a Russian T-80BVM tank that was destroyed by that unit by firing an American FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile<\/strong>. The tank belonged to the 200th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian army, which at the beginning of the invasion participated in the offensive against Kharkiv, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanacion.com.ar\/el-mundo\/la-temible-brigada-rusa-que-fue-diezmada-en-ucrania-y-refleja-la-destruccion-en-las-filas-del-nid16122022\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost to 500 of his 1,400 men in three months<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0421\u043f\u0435\u0446\u043f\u0456\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0456\u043b \u00abKRAKEN\u00bb \u0432 \u0440\u043e\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0443 \u043f\u0440\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a \u0422-80 \u0411\u0412\u041c, \u044f\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0431\u0456\u0439\u0446\u0456 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0456\u043b\u0443 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0431\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0432 \u0440\u0430\u0439\u043e\u043d\u0456 \u041f\u0438\u0442\u043e\u043c\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOW3y-gBDeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video, a Ukrainian officer from the Kraken Unit explains that <strong>the T-80BVM in question was paraded on Moscow's Red Square<\/strong>. Thus, the military vehicle had a symbolic character that could be given performance despite its destruction. But it was not going to be an easy task to achieve something like this in the middle of a bloody war.<\/p>\n<p>The American NGO <a href=\"https:\/\/gate.org\/tank\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gate to Ukraine<\/a>, which supports Ukrainian families affected by the Russian invasion, had an idea:<em> \"This past summer <strong>our team had a far-fetched idea of getting a Russian tank\u2026then cutting it into pieces and selling those pieces to raise money for Ukrainian families.<\/strong> There is something very symbolic about taking a brutal instrument of war, a hunk of metal that came to kill Ukrainian families, and recycling it as a way to support those families. After almost 4 months of dead-ends, 100+ phone calls, countless hours of work, and an endless stream of failures, we realized it was essentially impossible to accomplish our goal. But <strong>the team in Ukraine, led by Diana Podolianchuk, just absolutely refused to give up\u2026 In late October we received the long awaited message\u2026<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/gate.org\/tank\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gate to Ukraine announced this initiative on its website<\/a>. <strong>The T-80BVM was taken to a factory in the Ukraine and is being dismantled there<\/strong>, in order to turn it into <a href=\"https:\/\/gate.org\/product\/tank-gun-fragment \/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">souvenirs that sell for $250<\/a>, in a numbered and limited edition of 500 pieces to raise money to help Ukrainian families:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Destroy The Tank!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8AAMnqbE9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about this initiative on the web <a href=\"https:\/\/gate.org\/tank\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gate.org\/tank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the current Russian invasion, Ukraine has managed to capture hundreds of tanks from the invaders. One of them is going to provide great help to Ukrainian families.<\/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":[19536,11544],"tags":[14797,18249,10731,12043,16153,14532,15307],"class_list":["post-50078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-fgm-148-javelin","tag-gate-to-ukraine","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-t-80","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50078"}],"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=50078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}