{"id":2213,"date":"2025-08-25T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:48:52","slug":"russian-troops-from-viral-clip-explain-why-they-hoisted-us-flag-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/russian-troops-from-viral-clip-explain-why-they-hoisted-us-flag-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian troops from viral clip explain why they hoisted US flag (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The soldiers operated an American-supplied M113 vehicle captured from Ukrainian forces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Russian crew who went viral earlier this month after flying a US flag from an armored vehicle have said they carried out the stunt specifically to rile Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, which was filmed near the frontline village of Malaya Tokmachka in Russia\u2019s Zaporozhye Region, showed the soldiers driving the US-supplied M113 vehicle decorated with Russian and American flags after it had been\u00a0abandoned by Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/margaritasimonyan\/15185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> a close-up video of the trophy APC. The crew explained that the display was intended to <em>\u201cirritate\u201d<\/em> the enemy.<br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a good APC. Ours are better, of course, but this one will do,\u201d<\/em> one soldier said.<\/p>\n<p>The stunt drew outrage in Kiev. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, denounced it as <em>\u201cmaximum arrogance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some Ukrainian commentators claimed the video was fabricated, or that the vehicle was actually Soviet-made, while others insisted the Russian crew had already been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>French broadcaster TF1 alleged the footage was manipulated with AI, while Canada-based NATO-linked nonprofit DisinfoWatch argued it had been <em>\u201cstaged.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soldiers operated an American-supplied M113 vehicle captured from Ukrainian forces A Russian crew who went viral earlier this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}