Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) eliminated a Russian platoon and weapons storage facilities along the frontlines, intense new video shows.
Footage of the skirmish, uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, shows an SSO drone and armored vehicle battalion corner and take out Russian soldiers fighting in an industrial complex in the Donetsk region.
One of the Russian invaders could be seen moving around the entrance of a dilapidated building with his rifle in tow, only for an explosives-laden Ukrainian drone to immediately spot him and ram itself forward, blowing up the entire doorway.
The SSO officers then deployed several other drones around the complex, which hunted down the Kremlin troops and blew them up as they tried to hide inside buildings and trailers.
After the drones blew up several rooms in the destroyed area, members of the SSO’s 3rd Regiment arrived in armored Humvees and fired their guns repeatedly into the buildings to clear out the area.
While Kyiv did not say how many Russian troops were taken out in the successful mission, officials said that a lone Moscow fighter survived the assault and surrendered to the SSO regiment.
Before he was taken into custody, the soldier provided the Ukrainian troops with “valuable information” about Russia’s weapons and ammunition depots in the area, the SSO said.
“These arsenals were destroyed the same day,” the regiment added.
Donetsk continues to see some of the most intense battles of the war as Russia continues to gain ground in the region after more than three years of fighting.
Oleksandr Syrskyi, Kyiv’s military commander in chief, said Thursday that his troops have gained a second wind in the region, holding back Russian troops attempting to reconquer three cities that Ukraine recently liberated.
“Our side has taken a number of measures to improve the interaction of military units and subdivisions, regrouped troops, which slowed down the enemy’s advance in most threatening areas,” Syrskyi said in a statement.
Syrskyi stressed that Russia has suffered heavy losses in Donetsk, assuring his troops that they are holding back the invasion as peace talks continue to try and end the war.
