article_snippet: The shots were posted on social media by Russian troops from military unit 46108, the 5th Tank Brigade, based in Buryatia, which lies between Lake Baikal and Mongolia in the far east of Siberia.
article_snippet: A number of images of Russian tanks with Russian tanks marking obscured were posted on social network VK .
article_snippet: A Russian tank with the identification number on its hull covered over can be seen in the background here .
article_snippet: The ploy was most likely done to make The ploy harder to identify the tanks as Russian when the tanks rolled into Ukraine .
article_snippet: This satellite shot shows a build up of military vehicles around the Kuzminsky base .
article_snippet: The photographs of tanks on the Kuzminsky training ground show numerous examples of the identification numbers on their hulls being obscured - exactly the kind of ploy which would make their harder to identify as Russian when their most likely rolled into Ukraine.
highlights_snippet: Shots posted on social media by Russian troops from 5th Tank Brigade .
  