{"id":3771,"date":"2015-04-03T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:24:59","slug":"5th-tank-brigade-russian-army-battle-debaltseve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/5th-tank-brigade-russian-army-battle-debaltseve\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Tank Brigade of the Russian Army in the Battle for Debaltseve"},"content":{"rendered":"

This report provides new evidence of the participation of the 5th<\/sup> Separate Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Ulan-Ude, military unit 46108) in the fighting in Donbas. Previous reporting on this subject can be found here:<\/p>\n

“We were fully aware of what we brought ourselves to and what could happen”<\/a>
\n“How These Adorable Puppies Exposed Russian Involvement in Ukraine”<\/a>
\n“Russian tankers in Donbas: crew commander identified”<\/a>
\n“20-year-old Alexander Minakov from Chita lost his leg in a tank in Donbas – Blogger”<\/a><\/p>\n

On February 17, eyewitnesses in Makiivka uploaded two videos to Youtube showing a military convoy traveling north toward Debaltseve.<\/p>\n

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Just a day before, Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary for President Putin, reported that Putin had discussed the implementation of the Minsk Agreement during the meeting of the Russian Security Council. It was the third day since the signing of the agreement, and all military activities were supposed to have been stopped by then\u2026<\/p>\n

The convoy on Makiivka consisted of at least ten main battle tanks (T-72B, 1984 and 1989 models), four BMP IFVs, one MT-LB armored vehicle, and support vehicles \u2013 at least seven army trucks and four tanker trucks.<\/p>\n

The first<\/a> and the second<\/a> video show the convoy traveling along Prospekt Lenina.<\/p>\n

The location of the first video:<\/p>\n

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The location of the second video:<\/p>\n

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It is worth noting\u00a0that all vehicles had distinctive markings on their sides: a white empty square.<\/p>\n

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Similar markings are used<\/a> for the vehicles of August, an illegal armed formation. However, unlike August, the convoy in Makiivka:<\/p>\n