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“Bang On Target” – Ukrainian Soldier Films A Russian Rocket Hitting His Trench Where He Was Hiding

A Ukrainian soldier fiercely resisting Russian troops and separatist forces in east Ukraine accidentally filmed an incoming missile into the trench where he was positioned. While no one was hurt in the incident, the power of the explosion seen in the video gives an idea of a soldier’s ordeal.

Drone Captures ‘Terrifying Moment’ When Ukrainian Positions Get Vaporized By Russian Thermobaric Bombs

As fierce fighting continues for the control of Donbas, both sides are now fortifying defensive positions by digging trenches stretching tens of miles.

One of the latest videos from the Ukrainian frontline shows two military personnel firing at the enemy from inside their trenches. After some time, a rocket flies into their trench, resulting in a powerful explosion that gets caught on the camera.

Drone and Artillery Strikes On Trenches

While this may be the first documented instance of an incoming projectile into a trench, a series of videos show drone strikes and drone-assisted artillery strikes by Russian and Ukrainian forces dug in.

The latest of these videos appeared on May 17, showing artillery and rocket strike allegedly on the position of Ukrainian armed forces in Donbass. In the second half of the video, an artillery shell can be seen hitting a trench directly.

The full video appears to have been deleted by the Russian media site.

A few days ago, a video was filmed by a drone used by Ukrainian forces dropping a rocket onto a trench where two Russian servicemen could be seen frantically fleeing in opposite directions.

The strike was carried out by the 59th brigade of the Armed Forces in the Nikolaev-Kherson area of Ukraine. The drone loiters above the trench and surveys the place before dropping the bomb.




Footage shows the bomb dropping towards a Russian trench

Ukrainian forces are also using the newly acquired Switchblade drones from the US to strike Russian forces dug deep inside the trenches. On May 6, Ukraine’s 53rd Mechanized Brigade’s released a video of a Switchblade loitering munition strike on Russian troops.

Russian troops can be seen in what appears to be a trench and the drone strikes the road next to the soldiers, forcing them to run for cover to the nearby structures with corrugated iron roofs, where they quickly disappear from sight.

While there was another video on May 3 that showed Russian strikes on a Ukrainian trench in the Izyum area, where some of the OSINT analysts on social media said that the soldiers inside the trench were actually ‘mannequins’.




OSINT Analyst Point Out The ‘Mannequins’ In The Ukrainian Trenches In The Izium Area. (Twitter)

The same day, one more video surfaced, shot by a surveillance drone over the Ukrainian town of Popasna. The video begins with artillery strikes landing close to a trench just north of Popasna’s center, forcing the one Ukrainian soldier to flee for cover.

The drone also appears to have been used to assist the alleged Wagner private military contractors in assaulting that trench and other nearby buildings to hunt down the last Ukrainian defenders of the area. Ultimately, it hovers over the location where the Ukrainians are cornered and surrender.

Trench Warfare: A Centuries-Old Feature 

Trench warfare has been a feature of conflict in Europe since World War I, as they help to protect troops from artillery.

Starting in 2015, the Ukrainian armed forces and Russian separatists each dug hundreds of miles of trenches carving an arc across south-eastern Ukraine, shaping the landscape resembling the Western Front of northern France and Belgium for more than a century ago.

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