Russian military lost T-62M and T-62МV tanks in Kherson region

The Russian military lost their armored vehicles during the counteroffensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.

In particular, Ukrainian forces managed to destroy and capture Russian T-62M/MV tanks.

A Ukrainian soldier, known on Twitter as “eastern fella“, reported that about a dozen T-62 tanks were captured in the Kherson direction.

In 1962, the Object 165 tank was adopted by the Soviet Army under the designation Т-62А.

The retrofitted version of the Т-62 tank with a Sheksna system of guided weapons received the designation Т-62М.

The video of the Ukrainian serviceman featuring the updated T-62MV tank was destroyed during the offensive.

On these outdated tanks, the Russian military installs improvised anti-cumulative screens, which are supposed to protect the turret from explosive devices dropped by drones.

Т-62МV tanks were noticed in the territory of the Russian Southern Military District as recently as 2021.

In August 2018, during the Vostok-2018 exercises, the Russian military removed at least several dozen Т-62М and Т-62МV out from storage at the bases.

In May2022, the first reports appeared about the sending of Т-62М and Т-62МV tanks to Ukraine.

In addition to the Kherson region, these tanks are used by the Russian military in the Luhansk region.

As previously reported, Ukrainian forces liberated the village of Davydiv Brid in the Kherson region — one of the key settlements on the bridgehead behind the Inhulets River.