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Originally Posted by Baron von Kriterium
AFV 1, 2 and 3 are BMP-1. Two of their turrets are seen at 4 and 5. AFV 6 is a BTR-D. So what? Well, the Russians do not use BMP-1. The UAF and Donbas militias use them. But the Russian army uses different variants (BMP-1AM and BRM-1K). Russian airborne units, Ukrainian ground and air forces and the Donbas militias use the BTR-D - the latter having captured them from UAF.
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Sorry, where do you get this info?
https://altyn73.livejournal.com/1388817.html
If they don't use them, then why did they have a modernization program announced for them a couple years ago? DPR is also part of the offensive.
Be careful trying to dissect yourself into building a narrative that best meets your own beliefs of what is occurring. There has barely been any tank to tank or head on mechanized battles this whole war. There's little videos of such and only in isolated incidents. You do however have drone footage of artillery bombardments on the very pictures you posted.
Having 'Ukrainian' BMP-1's on the wrong side of a river crossing and losing them in an unknown battle, and Russians coincidentally also choosing to make the river crossing and lose all their units at the same spot as "Ukrainian" BMP-1s makes absolutely zero sense.
Sometimes the easiest answer is the one that is presented.