🔴 Ukraine War - Drone Shows
Intense Close Combat Between
Ukrainian & Russian Troops
In Kherson
Drone footage recorded by a resident of Kherson shows a
really unique and rare glimpse on close combat between
elements of two professional armies.
The video was filmed on February 24th during clashes at the
Antonovsky Bridge in the battle for Kherson. Without context
the scenes show a section of Mechanized Armored Vehicles
including 2 BRDM-2's and a number of about 12-16 mounted
Infantry coning from the north to inspect the remains of
a disabled artillery convoy in the south.
What they do not know is that about 3 Squads of enemy
Infantry so a total of 20-30+ soldiers is already waiting for
them west of the road to initiate an ambush from close range.
Now some context to the footage. This was recorded in
Kherson on 24th of February. During that time Russian
forcesadvanced from the south over the bridge
while the Ukrainians defended the north.
The two BRDMs were in fact Ukrainian while the attackers
on the berm were Russian soldiers. After matching the area
with real time map images we were able to locate the exact
location of this battle.
We also matched the military eqipment seen in this video
with "comfirmed" losses on both side during the war.
During our research we found out that till now no Russian
operated BRDM loss was listed there but under
Ukrainian losses there were BRDM-2s and 5 of these were
lost in Kherson.
So we found out that this in fact had to be Ukrainian
BRDM-2's. Now we tried to identify the dissable convoy.
On the first look it appeared like the convoy must have been
Russian given the fact that its location matched the course
of the frontline during that time with Russian forces
advancing over the bridge.
However a few observations let us think twice about this.
The vehicles have no markings. Nearly all of Russian
vehicles are marked with letters. While we do not think
that they really mark every vehicle
(SF operations for example) this regular convoy should
have been marked. That was not the case.
However it could have been that the markings just were not
visible from the angle of the drone cam so we digged a bit
deeper. Again we looked up confirmed
vehicle losses on both sides.
Russia only had a couple of D-30 howitzers listed but none of
the pictures to confirm the losses were taken in Kherson.
So we took a look at Ukrainian side and in fact there were
a couple of howitzer listed. Under them were two Ukrainian
12mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers. After looking at the pictures
from them we were really stunned to see that the pics in fact
showed the same artillery in the same locations as in this video.
Also on the pictures you could clearly see no markings on
any of the vehicle. That led to the conclusion that the convoy
was in fact a Ukrainian convoy. This helped us to come to
following conclusion: A section of two Ukrainian BRDM-2's
with two squads of 12-16 additional infantry was sent to the
south from the north to inspect the remains of a destroyed
Ukrainian artillery convoy.
It is possible that they were sent in to scout for enemy
presence and to look for survivors. What they did not knew
when they were halfway at their AO was that about
3 Russianb squads with 20-30+ soldiers set up positions
west of them on and behind a berm.
When the Russians saw them coming close they started
to engage them with small arms fire and grenades since
it seemed they lacket anti-tank weapons. It could be that
they already used them up on the convoy before.
The Ukrainian soldiers on the BRDMs dismounted and hit
the ditch right next to to them.
A few also took coverbehind the poles on the road but
got engaged by grenades.
All in all the front BRDM and its men were hit harder
by the ambush.
They spread out much further than the men from the
second BRDM and it appeared they needed much longer
time to evacuate. The second BRDM started a retreat
while the first one remained at the scene
when the video ends.It very likely that these
two BRDMs were later destroyed
on that road as the pictures of lost Ukrainian BRDM show.
There are no other reports about confirmed losses during
that battle when it comes to men.
No Russian or Ukrainian numbers from this particular
clash were released.
The link to the site tracking the losses:
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02...
Video by Ivan Klimchenko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmd4...
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🔴 Ukraine War - Drone Shows Intense Close Combat Between Ukrainian & Russian Troops In Kherson
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