Russian Teenager Died in Tank Displayed in Park of Captured Ukrainian Military Equipment

A 16-year-old teenager died in Yakutsk after being crushed by a part of a T-72 tank at an exhibition of military equipment in the multimedia park “Russia — My History.”

Among the exhibits were vehicles captured by the Russian military during the invasion of Ukraine, according to The Moscow Times.

The incident was confirmed by the Mayor of Yakutsk, Yevgeny Grigoriev. According to him, preliminary data indicates that the teenager was crushed by a heavy moving metal part of the tank.

The regional prosecutor’s office specified that the victim was a schoolboy born in 2009. According to the investigation, he entered the tank through the lower hatch, after which one of the parts of the combat vehicle fell on him.

The exhibition in the “Russia — My History” park is positioned as a “patriotic project” where equipment allegedly captured by the Russian military during hostilities in Ukraine is on display.

A similar incident occurred in April last year. At an exhibition of captured equipment in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the ramp of an M113 armored personnel carrier opened and struck a 4-year-old boy on the head.

He was diagnosed with an open head injury, didn’t survive.