It’s not the kind of payload General Motors engineers could have envisioned, but a missile-toting Chevrolet Aveo is part of the resistance that Russian tanks have encountered in Ukraine.
Lt. Tetiana Chornovol, commander of a Ukrainian anti-tank missile unit in the outskirts of Kyiv, popped the hatch of her red Aveo to show a New York Times reporter the Stugna-P missile inside.
Chornovol called the car an “ecologically clean killing machine” in a story published March 19. The newspaper originally described the car as a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, but Jalopnik noted that a video and photos of Chornovol from Reuters revealed it to be a first-generation Aveo LS. The Times later updated its story.
“An ordinary car, driven to extraordinary tasks when its life as a commuter or grocery-getter was undone by the invasion,” Jalopnik wrote.
Chornovol commands about a dozen people, all of whom have been transporting missiles to ambush positions in their own cars, the paper said.