Russian forces have destroyed a US-supplied Abrams tank in Ukraine for the first time, Moscow-appointed officials said today.

Reuters was unable to verify a video posted on social media purporting to shows an Abrams tank to burn.

“From beginning, the soldiers were telling us that these tanks would burn like othersKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the state-run RIA news agency. He was referring to previous cases where Russia says it destroyed Western-supplied weapons to Ukraine.

The US began supplying Abrams tanks to Ukrainian forces last September.