![]() ![]() Ten minutes in, one of the infantrymen chucks a grenade at the tank but it misses. Nonetheless, the tank blasts shell after shell in the vicinity, the over-pressure and shrapnel rending tree limbs. Still the crew appears to struggle to visually acquire the well dug-in position, even though from a higher vantage the drone’s camera reveals Russian infantry moving inside. It eventually merges back with the tree line so that it is positioned at an angle to shoot down the length of the trench. Undeterred by the close call, the tank eventually resumes its approach of the T-juncture and is missed by another anti-tank munition at 6:58. Allegedly, the tank crew spotted the incoming missile and fired the shell shot to obscure itself and throw off the missile operator’s aim. The Ukrainian editors claim this was an AT-4 Fagot (“Basoon”) anti-tank guided missile, which must be directed to a target by the operator via a wire connecting the launcher to the missile. Seconds later a projectile rockets past the tank and explodes dozens of meters behind it, leaving a smoking crater. This latest one shows a Ukrainian counterattack “in retribution” after that trench was captured by Russian forces.Īt 3:40 minutes this T-72 fires a shot far short of the target. The first two videos showed successful actions defending a trench from attacking Russian infantry. Grimly, this is actually one of four lengthy videos posted by K-2 showing combat for control of this exact same trench. This gave the unit a vantage to spot enemy infantry in cover and pass that on to Ukrainian artillery and tank crews who often suffer limited visibility of the battlefield during the battle.Īfter the engagement, the leftover recordings were patched together into a startlingly cinematic overview of brutal combat, which the battalion’s K-2 account posted on social media. The battalion’s drones overwatched the battle using high-resolution cameras able to zoom in for intimate detail. The recording shows an assault by Ukrainian tanks targeting a trench next to an intersection of a tree line called “T-Pattern” located at Verkhn’okam’yans’ke, in between the cities of Sivers’k and Lyschansk in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine. More than a century after the first British tanks trundled forth to battle in World War I in an effort to breach German trenches, high-resolution combat footage posted by the second battalion of Ukraine’s 54 th Mechanized Brigade shows that the tactical concept hasn’t gone away. ![]()
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