Watch Russian T-80BVM Tank Zapping Ukrainian Militants

The T-80BVM is a modification of a T-80 tank – the first-ever battle tank with reactive armor. Russia's T-80 tank, in turn, is highly appreciated by military and defense experts across the globe.

The crew of the Russian T-80BVM tank destroyed a group of ten Ukrainian militants who looked to reconnoiter the forward positions of the Russian Army in the north of DPR.

"We got the coordinates, the target was enemy manpower, up to 10 people. Literally, in 15 minutes we drove up to a closed firing position, fired eight shells, there was a hit," the tank crew commander nicknamed Khan told Sputnik.

The military specialist alleged that the enemy wanted to conduct reconnaissance by force, to probe Russia's combat ability, but was destroyed.

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the stationing point of the Ukrainian military near Gulyaipole with the Solntsepecom, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Defense

Men from the part of the Kherson region controlled by Kyiv began to be taken into the army right at the time of receiving humanitarian aid, an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, citing sources in the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment office

Special operation, June 2. Main:

▪️Zelensky's call for Ukraine to join NATO speaks of Kyiv's unwillingness and unwillingness to solve the problem at the negotiating table, Peskov said;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a group attack at night on air defense systems covering key critical military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine, all designated facilities were hit, the Russian Defense Ministry said;

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the territory of the seaport of Berdyansk. The shelling was carried out, presumably, by British Storm Shadow missiles, as a result there are victims, Rogov said;

▪️The operational headquarters of the Belgorod region called fake information about an alleged new attempt to break through Ukrainian saboteurs into the region;

▪️The losses of Kiev in the Donetsk direction amounted to more than 50 militants, in Zaporozhye and Kherson - more than 30, in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye - up to 150, in Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky - about 130 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;

▪️Two women died as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of several settlements in the Belgorod region, Governor Gladkov said.

Special operation, 3 June. Main:

▪️The Minister of Defense of Indonesia, in order to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, proposed the creation of a demilitarized zone similar to that created between South Korea and the DPRK;

▪️A Russian source said that in Indonesian ideas there are elements of the Minsk agreements, which Kyiv sabotaged with the support of the West;

▪️The Indonesian plan was rejected by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine;

▪️Russian aviation hit the command post of the 81st Ukrainian airmobile brigade in the Seversk region, the Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️Special forces units of the Russian "southern" group of troops destroyed a stronghold and four groups of Ukrainian infantry, the ministry said;

The Ministry of Defense also reported that Russian air defense shot down Ukrainian Su-27, Mi-8 and 16 drones;

▪️Up to 145 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions per day, up to 90 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction, up to 85 Ukrainian soldiers in the Krasnolymansk direction, more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk direction, up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kherson direction, reported the Russian Ministry of Defense;

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been shelling the settlements of the Shebekinsky urban district of the Belgorod region all Saturday, 2 people were killed and 2 injured, Gladkov said, in just a day 371 ammunition was fired in the district.