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Armored vehicles involved in crash on Bavarian highway injures seven soldiers
Cause of accident is under investigation, unclear if armored vehicles involved belonged to German armed forces or U.S. military.
Seven soldiers have been injured after a collision involving four armored vehicles on a Bavarian highway, according to the German police.
The incident occurred on Monday, April 17, at approximately 10:55 a.m. local time on the A6 highway between the Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg-West junctions, in the direction of the Czech Republic.
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Police in Amberg has reported that “a military convoy was driving on the A6 highway on maneuver duty, and that for still unknown reasons a rear-end collision involving four armored vehicles occurred.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/WALfH9udzF">https://t.co/WALfH9udzF</a> - German police report 7 soldiers injured in armored vehicle crash on Bavarian highway German police said Tuesday that seven soldiers were injured after armored military vehicles crashed into each other on a Bavarian highway. Several German media ... <a href="https://t.co/tLMYzL2Nhf">pic.twitter.com/tLMYzL2Nhf</a></p>— thewallstreetpost.com (@twsp_com) <a href="https://twitter.com/twsp_com/status/1648453908417884165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Capitol city of Moscow dispensed with fly-overs and the “Immortal Regiment” processions which are usually a huge deal, honoring Russian troops lost during WWII.
The most startling scale-back of this year’s parade was the presence of only one Stalin-era tank paraded through Red Square. was on display in the military parade through Red Square was particularly eye-catching, analysts noted. Peter Dickinson, editor of the Ukraine Alert blog at the Atlantic Council commented:
“It would be hard to image a more fitting symbol of Russia’s declining military fortunes than the sight of a solitary Stalin-era tank trundling across Red Square during the country’s traditional Victory Day celebrations on May 9. For the past two decades, Vladimir Putin has used Victory Day to showcase modern Russia’s resurgence as a military superpower, with dozens of the very latest tanks typically taking part in each annual parade. This year, however, the only tank on display was a T-34 model dating back to World War II. Inevitably, the embarrassing absence of tanks at this year’s Victory Day parade has been widely interpreted as further evidence of Russia’s catastrophic losses in Ukraine.”
The UK Ministry of Defense also noted that “the make-up of Russia’s annual Victory Day Parade in Red Square highlighted the materiel and strategic communications challenges” faced by Russian forces almost a year and a half into the war.
In fact, their latest tweeted intelligence update said, “Over 8,000 personnel reportedly took part in the parade, but the majority were auxiliary, paramilitary forces, and cadets from military training establishments. The only personnel from deployable formations of regular forces were contingents of Railway Troops and military police.”
