Ukrainian positions near Chasov Yar were destroyed using a trophy T-64 tank on which Ukrainian soldier Maxim Likhachev defected late last month, a security official in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told TASS, Paralel.Az reports.

"Yesterday, the T-64 on which Maxim Likhachev surrendered departed on a combat mission near Chasov Yar. [The crew] managed to wipe out Ukrainian positions," the officer said.

Maxim Likhachev, a former serviceman of the Ukrainian army, surrendered to Russian troops near Donetsk in late May. He arrived at the agreed place on a Ukrainian T-64 tank.

Likhachev was born in the town of Krasnodon of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).