It isn’t the type of payload Basic Motors engineers might have envisioned, however a missile-toting Chevrolet Aveo is a part of the resistance that Russian tanks have encountered in Ukraine.
Lt. Tetiana Chornovol, commander of a Ukrainian anti-tank missile unit within the outskirts of Kyiv, popped the hatch of her purple Aveo to point out a New York Occasions reporter the Stugna-P missile inside.
Chornovol referred to as the automobile an “ecologically clear killing machine” in a story published March 19. The newspaper initially described the automobile as a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, however Jalopnik noted {that a} video and pictures of Chornovol from Reuters revealed it to be a first-generation Aveo LS. The Occasions later up to date its story.
“An atypical automobile, pushed to extraordinary duties when its life as a commuter or grocery-getter was undone by the invasion,” Jalopnik wrote.
Chornovol instructions a few dozen individuals, all of whom have been transporting missiles to ambush positions in their very own automobiles, the paper stated.