DONETSK, March 4. /TASS/. A demining vehicle based on the US-made Abrams tank was struck near Avdeyevka last weekend, Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), told TASS.

"Last weekend, another US-made vehicle was hit near Avdeyevka. This time around, a drone struck a demining vehicle built on the basis of the Abrams tank," Kimakovsky said.

On March 1, a drone unit commander with the call sign Rassvet (Dawn) told TASS that two Abrams tanks and an evacuating vehicle based on this US-supplied tank, belonging to the Ukrainian armed forces, were destroyed or hit near Avdeyevka in the past few days.