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This is the moment Ukraine destroyed a rare Russian armoured vehicle first used at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Battlefield footage showed the Ladoga nuclear command vehicle being taken out during a Ukrainian drone strike.
The Soviet-era vehicle was designed in the seventies to move senior Kremlin staff around in the event of a nuclear attack and was built using the chassis of a T-80 main battle tank.
In 1986, the vehicle was dispatched to the scene of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and was said to have performed well by the explosion of Reactor No 4 at the nuclear power station.
But Manufacturer LKZ built no more than four or five, including the prototype, which where dispatched around the country for further testing.
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