The video from above shows at least one Russian and three Ukrainian casualties, amid gunshots, explosions and smoke
Battle in the trenches in Ukraine
A video captured from a drone and spread on Russian social networks shows the shocking battle between two units in Ukraine, in their respective trenches but only meters apart from each other.
The images from the height reflect the practically hand-to-hand combat. There are no more hiding places, the distance is literally a stone’s throw away. Or more precisely grenade, since several are thrown from one side to another. A Ukrainian soldier even reaches for an explosive thrown by the enemy and throws it out of the trench before it kills them.
The adrenaline is palpable. In the duration of the video, you see one Russian and three Ukrainian casualties, between shots, explosions and smoke.
Battle in the trenches in Ukraine
According to information from Russian channels, it was an assault on Rascheuska, in eastern Ukraine, during a raid by a reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Motorized Rifle Battalion of the 4th Brigade.
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A panting Ukrainian soldier, clutching his Kalashnikov and fear in his eyes, did not move a step for five hours in his roadside ditch. A hidden Russian tank on the horizon was firing non-stop towards the point where 55-year-old Andriy lies sprawled on the ground.
His tanned neck is covered in sweat and his mouth is too dry to utter more than a whisper. But his heart is racing so hard that he can barely breathe on the Ukrainian eastern front. Andriy has no idea where the other men in his unit have gone, or how close the Russians are to his ditch. “We don’t want to provoke them because otherwise they start shooting at us with more force,” he explained from the eastern front.
“I have lost many friends,” declared a soldier who identified himself as Gere before boarding an armored vehicle and heading to the front line. “I want to avenge their deaths”, said the 23-year-old.
Battle in the trenches in Ukraine
For her part, Sergeant Galyna Syzonenko knows what it is to be immobilized in a trench. The military doctor carried a walkie-talkie and listened to the explosions on a hill that the Russians have tried to take over the last week.
At first breath she would be called to run to her van to remove the wounded, with a good chance of being trapped there for days. “She’s incredibly creepy,” she commented on trench warfare.
“There are times when you can’t move for hours. You don’t even dare to look up ”, she recounted. “I wear my fear like a badge of honor,” said the 50-year-old sergeant. “Only fools do not feel fear in a situation like this.”
Captain Oleg Marchenko seemed to search for words to express his thoughts in the middle of the intense fire. The 28-year-old man looked at the sergeant and smiled. “She sits in the trench and she worries about saving others,” Marchenko commented.
“A tank receives the coordinates and continuously bombs the site. It can fire 1,000 shells per day,” she commented with a distant look. “If you move one step, you die”. Marchenko and Syzonenko turned away from the road to let a truck with an armored vehicle pass. “As long as you have a trench or a ditch, you can save your life”, assured the captain. “And lying there, you feel fear and adrenaline.”
(With information from AFP)