Russians burned their own BTR-70 to staging a combat with the “Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance group”

Russian servicemen burned down their own BTR-70 armored personnel carrier to stage a combat with “Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance group“.

The Militarnyi informs about it.

The definition of a specific version of the modernization of BTR-70 became possible after the publication of the video by the Channel One Russia.

Russian television continues the propaganda that “the Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance group infiltrated into Russia” on the armored personnel vehicles, having passed more than 30 km of the occupied territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyCK_hdWxdE

At first, an allegedly helmet cam video of one of the raiders was published on the Telegram channel “Джокер ДНР” and it did not show any other angles of the armored personnel carrier than behind and it seemed that this was an ordinary BTR-80:

Nevertheless, already in the TV footage of Channel One Russia, correspondent Irina Kuksinkova directly pointed out what to pay attention to:

At this point in the video, it is clear that this is a derivative of the modernization of the armored personnel carrier BTR-70, the key is the specific loopholes and side doors.

Visual comparison of these elements:

Thus, the back part of the armored personnel carrier from a TV story has specifications of the BTR-80 hull, which indicates changes in a design in order to place one engine instead of two GAZ-4905:

Another visually recognizable element is the upper part of the armored personnel carrier hull, which, as you can see, has a structure relevant to the BTR-80.

Such modernization of the BTR-70 has been mass-produced at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant since 2006 and has been in service with the Russian army since 2005, although the last few years have not been produced for the Russian armed forces.

Such modernization of the BTR-70 is also supplied for export, for comparison the BTR-70M with the relevant specifications in service with the Nicaraguan army. Other customers are Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.