The footage shown that the ERA shape and layout on those tank is likely Kontakt-1, which leave only a few possibility - T-64BV, T-72AV, and T-80BV.
(I’m leaving T-72B family out because the way they placed Kontakt-1 on the turret is so different from the rest it’s unlikely to be the one in the footage.)
The T-64BV is mainly use by Ukrainian, while the rest is mainly use by Russian. One of the main visual different of the T-64BV compare to T-72 and T-80 is that it has provision to mount its infrared search light on the left side of its main gun, while the T-72 and T-80 has the same mount on the right side.
In the footage, you’ll notice that the tank has some empty space on the left side of its main gun, consist with where you’d normally find infrared search light on T-64BV. Until we have higher resolution picture of the incident, or one which clearly shown a Z marking or something similar, I think it’s more likely it’s Ukrainian tank than Russian.
I don’t think it’s a Russian tank.
The footage shown that the ERA shape and layout on those tank is likely Kontakt-1, which leave only a few possibility - T-64BV, T-72AV, and T-80BV.
(I’m leaving T-72B family out because the way they placed Kontakt-1 on the turret is so different from the rest it’s unlikely to be the one in the footage.)
The T-64BV is mainly use by Ukrainian, while the rest is mainly use by Russian. One of the main visual different of the T-64BV compare to T-72 and T-80 is that it has provision to mount its infrared search light on the left side of its main gun, while the T-72 and T-80 has the same mount on the right side.
In the footage, you’ll notice that the tank has some empty space on the left side of its main gun, consist with where you’d normally find infrared search light on T-64BV. Until we have higher resolution picture of the incident, or one which clearly shown a Z marking or something similar, I think it’s more likely it’s Ukrainian tank than Russian.