Russia has acquired its fingers on US tanks in a startling reverse for the much-heralded Ukrainian counteroffensive launched this week.

Video has been launched displaying US- and German-made heavy artillery seized by Russian troops on the frontline, reports The Daily Express US.

Seemingly attempting to impress Kyiv’s Western allies, the Russian protection ministry claims the Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles had been captured throughout a battle within the Zaporizhzhia area.

Alongside a brief clip, the ministry stated in a press release: "Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. These are our trophies. Equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Zaporizhzhia region."

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Despite this disruptive loss for Ukraine, hope is just not misplaced. While Germany’s defence minister admitted the nation is not going to instantly be capable to exchange the tanks it has offered, lower than a fortnight in the past President Biden introduced a brand new $300million army help package deal to Ukraine.

The US package deal contains subtle weaponry corresponding to drones to permit strikes from vary.

Ukrainian forces are additionally successively preventing again within the counteroffensive in accordance with early reviews, correcting this newest Russian victory as merely a minor one.

The battle within the Zaporizhzhia area does nevertheless continues to be a priority, provided that it's dwelling to the most important nuclear plant in Europe, however stays underneath the Kremlin’s management.

The area is however 200 kilometers from one other hotspot of the counterattack in japanese Donetsk, main many army analysts to consider it to be a key focus for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to reclaim within the coming weeks.

In mild of the bathe of missiles that thundered down on the Zelensky’s hometown in a single day, killing not less than 10 and wounding greater than two dozen, a Ukrainian counterattack is desperately awaited.

A warehouse and residential constructing in Kryvyi Rih, 200 miles west of Zaporizhzhia, had been reported by regional officers to have been struck as effectively.

Reacting on Telegram, Zelensky stated: “More terrorist missiles. Russian killers continue their war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people.”

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Express US, a former energy plant employee has additionally described torture strategies utilized by Russians controlling the positioning.

Former ZNPP employee Oleksii Melnychuk, who fled the plant, stated: “The station workers was despatched to the so-called basements, the place the occupiers used torture - electrical shock.

“[We were] compelled to go to work as a consequence of the truth that it's obligatory to manage the nuclear response. The employees are consistently underneath stress and in a troublesome ethical state."