First-person body camera footage shows the chilling moment Ukrainian soldiers ambushed a truck full of Russian troops in a deadly attack as they continue their offensive in Kursk.
Ukrainian special forces, dressed in camouflage suits, can be seen running through the forest hunting Putin’s soldiers with grenades, guns and rockets.
The group of about six heavily armed men rapidly fire at the Russian targets as they gain ground and close in on their enemy.
Body camera footage then captures the moment soldiers use what appears to be a mini rocket launcher to destroy a Russian truck hidden behind some trees.
A bright orange explosion shoots toward the vehicle, which then bursts into flames and sends plumes of black smoke into the air.
Body camera footage captures the moment soldiers use what appears to be a mini rocket launcher to destroy a Russian truck hidden behind some trees.
The group of about six heavily armed men rapidly fire at the Russian targets as they gain ground and close in on their enemy.
A bright orange explosion shoots toward the vehicle, which then bursts into flames, sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the air.
Ukrainian special forces, dressed in camouflage suits, can be seen running through the forest hunting Putin’s soldiers with grenades, guns and rockets.
A post by the military unit on the social media app Telegram said the truck was “full of enemy personnel.” The sun has reported.
Ukrainian forces said they managed to destroy all the Russian equipment and eliminate the troops within four minutes of the attack.
Zelensky’s troops crossed the Russian border on August 6 and began seizing territory in the most significant cross-border attack on the country since World War II.
Since then, the Ukrainians have managed to advance up to 20 miles in some directions and have captured dozens of towns and settlements.
As of this morning, they have also reportedly seized Sudzha, a strategic town that is also a key transit hub for Russian gas flowing into Ukraine.
More than 120,000 Russian citizens have been forced to flee their homes amid widespread regional evacuations since last Tuesday, while 12 civilians are said to have been killed.
While Russia has seen small-scale incursions into its territory since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the incursion into the Kursk region is by far the most significant.
It was also the first time that the Ukrainian military itself led an incursion, rather than defecting pro-Ukraine Russian fighters, and the first offensive inside Russia acknowledged by Zelensky.
Matthew Savill, director of military science at the RUSI think tank, told MailOnline there could be up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers currently in Russia.
Ukrainian military personnel operate an armored military vehicle in the Sumy region near the border with Russia, August 12, 2024.
This photo shows a road sign indicating the distance to the Russian city of Kursk next to the destroyed border crossing with Russia, in the Sumy region, on August 13, 2024.
This photograph shows ‘dragon’s teeth’ and other fortifications at the destroyed border crossing with Russia in the Sumy region amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian military personnel operate a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region near the border with Russia on August 12, 2024, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard as he watches a line of captured Russian prisoners of war in Kursk
A Ukrainian soldier raises a Ukrainian flag in Guevo, Kursk Oblast, Russia, released on August 11, 2024 in this still image obtained from a video on social media
‘There is evidence that Ukrainian forces from at least four different brigades – the 22nd and 88th Mechanized and the 80th and 82nd Air Assault, and possibly more – are now involved in the offensive on Kursk.
‘These brigades use equipment provided by the West, such as infantry fighting vehicles and Soviet-era tanks.
‘It’s difficult to put numbers on it, but it could be enough for one division – perhaps 10,000 – given the extent of the fighting now underway.
‘But we have to be very cautious in determining the exact size, because the units are rotating and the presence of elements does not tell us that the entire unit has been deployed.
“This ambiguity suits the Ukrainians.”
Dara Massicot, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, added that the Ukrainian advance was so effective because it exploited key gaps between several Russian commands in Kursk: border guards, Defense Ministry forces and Chechen units that have been fighting on Russia’s side in the war.
US President Joe Biden said security officials were in constant contact with Ukraine over Russia’s invasion, which he said had “created a real dilemma” for Putin.
The White House said Ukraine gave no advance notice of its incursion and that the United States had no role in the operation, although Russian officials have suggested that Western supporters of Ukraine must have known about the attack.
The Ukrainian advance on Kursk has also dealt a blow to Putin’s efforts to pretend that life in Russia has been largely untouched by the war.
On Monday, an enraged Putin slammed the raid as a Western plot in its war with Russia, using Ukrainian soldiers to do its dirty work.
It is now clear why the kyiv regime rejected our proposals to return to a peaceful settlement plan.
“Everything seems to indicate that the enemy, with the help of its Western masters, is doing what it wants. Through the hands of the Ukrainians, the West is at war with us.
“But what kind of negotiations can we have with people who indiscriminately attack civilians, civilian infrastructure or try to create threats to nuclear energy facilities?” the Russian president asked rhetorically, before ordering his armed forces to “dislodge” Ukrainian troops.
His comments on Ukraine’s alleged indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure will no doubt be ridiculed in kyiv and the West.