Earlier commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade Colonel Andrii Biletskyi said in a video report that in battles of his unit against the russian forces, the 3rd battalion of the 57th Motor Rifle Brigade of the russian army "de-facto ceased to exist." Today we have a video published by the Ukrainian 3rd Brigade itself showing how this operation unfolded.
The first-person view video below shows trench combat from the perspective of the soldiers of the 1st Company, 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 3rd Assault Brigade; it demonstrates all the realities of such difficult battles but first and foremostly, the fortitude and bravery of the Ukrainian military in the face of the russian occupiers.
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Due to technical limitations of the video playback in Telegram messenger, here is the identical footage published by a Ukrainian TV channel
As a reminder, Col. Biletskyi said this operation led to liberation of the entire western bank of the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas Channel in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian army Major Maksym Zhorin revealed some more new details about this operation: he said in just one day troops of the 3rd Brigade seized 1 km of trenches and cleared them off the remaining russians.
According to Zhorin, it was a "difficult operation with very tough trench combats." The forces of the russian 57th Brigade were fighting off hard, the fire contact was sometimes almost up close – at a distance of 1-2 meters.
The result is almost all personnel of the russian 3rd Battalion of the 57th Motor Rifle Brigade either killed, wounded, or taken captive.
Should be reminded, the official statement by Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar said yesterday, on June 24, Ukrainian forces launched an offensive near Bakhmut and nearby settlements.
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