Viral video of Russian vehicle waving US flag and attacking Ukraine sparks fury in Kyiv
“Maximum
audacity,” raged top presidential adviser Andriy Yermak.
August
18, 2025 3:42 pm CET
By Seb
Starcevic
https://www.politico.eu/article/viral-video-russia-vehicle-wave-us-flag-attack-ukraine-fury-kyiv/
Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s most senior adviser condemned a viral video
showing a Russian combat vehicle waving an American flag speeding through
Ukraine’s front lines.
The
footage shows an M113 armored personnel carrier, manufactured by the U.S. and
captured by the Russian military, flying both Russian and American flags as it
speeds through a village in Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, according to
Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT.
POLITICO
could not independently verify the footage or its provenance.
“The
Russians are using the symbols of the United States in their own terrorist,
aggressive war,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s right-hand man in Kyiv, fumed on
Telegram. “Maximum audacity.”
The
propaganda video follows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit with U.S.
President Donald Trump in Alaska over the weekend, which was widely criticized
as a publicity win for the Kremlin.
The
red-carpeted affair, which saw the two leaders share an armored limousine, was
Putin’s first face-to-face meeting with an American president since Moscow’s
full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
Zelenskyy
and a squad of European leaders are heading to the White House on Monday to
meet with Trump in a bid to convince him to back a just peace deal for Ukraine,
without major territorial concessions to Russia.
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