This eye-popping video from Ukraine is currently circulating on social media.
A Russian tank drifts across an intersection in devastated Mariupol.
The verification team star confirms that the clip is from the port city. This results in a comparison of the video with existing Street View recordings of the city.
RIA, one of Russia’s largest news channels, circulated the clip on Telegram titled “Mariupol drift – Russian T-80BV makes a police U-turn”. It already has more than 600,000 hits there.
The video caused a lot of criticism from users on social media.
Among other things, the maneuver is described as “sick”, “disgusting” and “disrespectful”.
Other users celebrate the video and praise the daring maneuver.
One thing is certain: as entertaining as the controversial video may seem to some viewers. Spectacular tank stunts do not undo the suffering of war and the destruction in Ukraine.