{"id":5577,"date":"2015-10-01T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:22:20","slug":"where-and-when-the-fortress-on-wheels-kraz-armored-vehicle-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/where-and-when-the-fortress-on-wheels-kraz-armored-vehicle-was-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Where And When Was the \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 KrAZ Armored Vehicle Lost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of another\u00a0OSINT-investigation by InformNapalm.org team on identification of concentration places of the\u00a0Russian military vehicles and troops\u00a0in Alchevsk (more information in the corresponding <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/5539-alchevsk-russian-troops-concentration-areas\">article<\/a>) pictures of the Ukrainian\u00a0\u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 KrAZ armored vehicle were found.<\/p>\n<p>This armored \u2018fortress\u2019-vehicle was developed by Kyiv research and production company\u00a0\u2018Praktika\u2019 in 2014. For the first time this armored car\u00a0was shown to the public during the 11th international exhibition \u2018Arms and Security\u2019. This vehicle was created on the base of four-wheel drive KrAZ car. The main feature\u00a0of the new armored vehicles was special location of the chairs in the armored shelter: the chairs were placed in the center. The fighters sit back to back and can shoot through the embrasures\u00a0during the movement. That is why this armored vehicle resembles a fortress and thus such a name appeared, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XPyAo\">reports<\/a> \u2018Moya Slobozhanshchyna\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itJEgyuYxwo\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0\u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 is used for the transportation of combat units (up to 23 people). Armor protects not only cabin, but also motor compartment, accumulators, fuel tanks and block of receivers. Developers gave the vehicle an armored module for fighters instead of coachwork. The walls of the shelter\u00a0have additional anti-shard lining; the floor has a multilayer structure. The armored vehicle is protected from the fire of AK-74 and SVD, mines, and roadside bombs.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment these armored vehicles are in service of\u00a0the National Guard of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The trial by fire\u00a0of this armored vehicle happened\u00a0in the fall of 2014 in the east of Ukraine when one of the trucks was trapped by the militants\u00a0and shot from three sides. On that day it was raining heavily. The vehicle was in dire condition: the back wheels were torn completely and the vehicle moved no rims. As the\u00a0result the truck managed to leave the battlefield on its own\u00a0and,\u00a0what is most important, no one was killed. Glass and armored plates\u00a0prevented the cabin from bullets.<\/p>\n<p>A question rises: <strong>where and when was KrAZ \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle worth\u00a0around $75,000 lost?<\/strong> Today the average dollar exchange rate is UAH 22, meaning the cost of one such armored vehicle is UAH 1,650,000.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>These pictures were found on the accounts of\u00a0the\u00a0Russian occupation army&#8217;s\u00a0militants\u00a0located in Alchevsk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-25_121335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13078\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-25_121335.jpg\" alt=\"2015-09-25_121335\" width=\"1237\" height=\"789\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13081 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120222.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120222\" width=\"677\" height=\"616\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13079 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120423.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120423\" width=\"676\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13080 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120510.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120510\" width=\"677\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0first pictures of the lost \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle appeared on the net on March 1, 2015, on pro-Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1mY1m\">websites<\/a>\u00a0where a Russian militant\u00a0from the \u2018Prizrak\u2019 [Ghost] brigade was posing with the KrAZ in the background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13082\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-01.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-01\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13083\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-02.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-02\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-03-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13084\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-03-2.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-03-2\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that this is the same KrAZ is confirmed by the complete match of\u00a0the coloring, the biggest\u00a0damage of the vehicle \u2013 a bit suffered window in the cabin of the armored vehicle at\u00a0the right door.<\/p>\n<p>Literally 4 days ago several fresh fall pictures of the KrAZ armored vehicle were added <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1mY1m\">in comments<\/a> on one of the\u00a0site. You can see rhombus\u00a0with Cyrillic letter &#8216;P&#8217;\u00a0inside\u00a0in the fall pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6cMTPzX8g8M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13087\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6cMTPzX8g8M.jpg\" alt=\"6cMTPzX8g8M\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6Vrp-k-K9y8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13088\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6Vrp-k-K9y8.jpg\" alt=\"6Vrp-k-K9y8\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at this Ukrainian armored vehicle from all sides and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yDzTbunwduI?t=47s\">within<\/a>, we find no serious visible damages, so it can be assumed\u00a0that this truck was lost in completely workable state.<\/p>\n<p>So<strong> where and when was the Ukrainian\u00a0KrAZ \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle lost and why it was left to the enemy in working condition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not a single case of loss of completely workable military vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>These days\u00a0we hear about the fight of the Ukrainian special services with sponsorship of terrorism\u00a0\u2013 the list is large and you can look at it in various media. Let\u2019s focus on\u00a0one case: \u201c<strong>A resident of Kharkiv receivied\u00a0five years in prison for financing terrorists<\/strong>\u201d, as \u2018Obozrevatel\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/obozrevatel.com\/crime\/35789-harkovchanin-poluchil-pyat-let-tyurmyi-za-finansirovanie-terroristov.htm\">reports<\/a>. \u201cA man cashed\u00a0a trial\u00a0tranche in the amount of UAH 20,000 through a conversion center\u201d and received 5 years. And giving the enemy battle-worthy military hardware\u00a0worth 1 million 650 thousand UAH\u00a0\u2013 is that normal? Was anyone sentenced? Where is the responsibility of military servicemen on ALL command levels or scapegoats should be only the lowest rank of enlisted personnel?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/13072-kraz-krepost-na-kolesah\">Original article<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuTaJIu4eK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@<span class=\"username js-action-profile-name\">BuTaJIu4eK<\/span><\/a>, translation edited by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of another\u00a0OSINT-investigation by InformNapalm.org team on identification of concentration places of the\u00a0Russian military vehicles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,528],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","tag-war-in-ukraine","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where And When Was the \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 KrAZ Armored Vehicle Lost? 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For the first time this armored car\u00a0was shown to the public during the 11th international exhibition \u2018Arms and Security\u2019. This vehicle was created on the base of four-wheel drive KrAZ car. The main feature\u00a0of the new armored vehicles was special location of the chairs in the armored shelter: the chairs were placed in the center. The fighters sit back to back and can shoot through the embrasures\u00a0during the movement. That is why this armored vehicle resembles a fortress and thus such a name appeared, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XPyAo\">reports<\/a> \u2018Moya Slobozhanshchyna\u2019.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itJEgyuYxwo\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\nThe \u00a0\u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 is used for the transportation of combat units (up to 23 people). Armor protects not only cabin, but also motor compartment, accumulators, fuel tanks and block of receivers. Developers gave the vehicle an armored module for fighters instead of coachwork. The walls of the shelter\u00a0have additional anti-shard lining; the floor has a multilayer structure. The armored vehicle is protected from the fire of AK-74 and SVD, mines, and roadside bombs.\r\n\r\nAt the moment these armored vehicles are in service of\u00a0the National Guard of Ukraine.\r\n\r\nThe trial by fire\u00a0of this armored vehicle happened\u00a0in the fall of 2014 in the east of Ukraine when one of the trucks was trapped by the militants\u00a0and shot from three sides. On that day it was raining heavily. The vehicle was in dire condition: the back wheels were torn completely and the vehicle moved no rims. As the\u00a0result the truck managed to leave the battlefield on its own\u00a0and,\u00a0what is most important, no one was killed. Glass and armored plates\u00a0prevented the cabin from bullets.\r\n\r\nA question rises: <strong>where and when was KrAZ \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle worth\u00a0around $75,000 lost?<\/strong> Today the average dollar exchange rate is UAH 22, meaning the cost of one such armored vehicle is UAH 1,650,000.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<strong>These pictures were found on the accounts of\u00a0the\u00a0Russian occupation army's\u00a0militants\u00a0located in Alchevsk.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-25_121335.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13078\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-25_121335.jpg\" alt=\"2015-09-25_121335\" width=\"1237\" height=\"789\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120222.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-13081 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120222.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120222\" width=\"677\" height=\"616\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120423.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-13079 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120423.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120423\" width=\"676\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120510.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-13080 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/k2015-09-25_120510.jpg\" alt=\"\u043a2015-09-25_120510\" width=\"677\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe\u00a0first pictures of the lost \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle appeared on the net on March 1, 2015, on pro-Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1mY1m\">websites<\/a>\u00a0where a Russian militant\u00a0from the \u2018Prizrak\u2019 [Ghost] brigade was posing with the KrAZ in the background.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-01.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13082\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-01.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-01\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-02.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-13083\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-02.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-02\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-03-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-13084\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Raptor-03-2.jpg\" alt=\"Raptor-03-2\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe fact that this is the same KrAZ is confirmed by the complete match of\u00a0the coloring, the biggest\u00a0damage of the vehicle \u2013 a bit suffered window in the cabin of the armored vehicle at\u00a0the right door.\r\n\r\nLiterally 4 days ago several fresh fall pictures of the KrAZ armored vehicle were added <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/1mY1m\">in comments<\/a> on one of the\u00a0site. You can see rhombus\u00a0with Cyrillic letter 'P'\u00a0inside\u00a0in the fall pictures.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6cMTPzX8g8M.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13087\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6cMTPzX8g8M.jpg\" alt=\"6cMTPzX8g8M\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6Vrp-k-K9y8.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13088\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6Vrp-k-K9y8.jpg\" alt=\"6Vrp-k-K9y8\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nLooking at this Ukrainian armored vehicle from all sides and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yDzTbunwduI?t=47s\">within<\/a>, we find no serious visible damages, so it can be assumed\u00a0that this truck was lost in completely workable state.\r\n\r\nSo<strong> where and when was the Ukrainian\u00a0KrAZ \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 armored vehicle lost and why it was left to the enemy in working condition?<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis is not a single case of loss of completely workable military vehicles.\r\n\r\nThese days\u00a0we hear about the fight of the Ukrainian special services with sponsorship of terrorism\u00a0\u2013 the list is large and you can look at it in various media. Let\u2019s focus on\u00a0one case: \u201c<strong>A resident of Kharkiv receivied\u00a0five years in prison for financing terrorists<\/strong>\u201d, as \u2018Obozrevatel\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/obozrevatel.com\/crime\/35789-harkovchanin-poluchil-pyat-let-tyurmyi-za-finansirovanie-terroristov.htm\">reports<\/a>. \u201cA man cashed\u00a0a trial\u00a0tranche in the amount of UAH 20,000 through a conversion center\u201d and received 5 years. And giving the enemy battle-worthy military hardware\u00a0worth 1 million 650 thousand UAH\u00a0\u2013 is that normal? Was anyone sentenced? Where is the responsibility of military servicemen on ALL command levels or scapegoats should be only the lowest rank of enlisted personnel?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/13072-kraz-krepost-na-kolesah\">Original article<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuTaJIu4eK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@<span class=\"username js-action-profile-name\">BuTaJIu4eK<\/span><\/a>, translation edited by Oleksandr Klymenko<\/em>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}