Complete chaos at Vuhledar on the massive assault that kicked off the long and costly russian effort to take it. In this clip, it opens with a man running around on fire, and the camera pans to a tank trying to move around other vehicles, before it strikes a land mine.
This particular assault was a masterpiece by Ukraine. This was a no-bullshit hard mechanized push by the 155th naval infantry, back when they were still well-equipped veterans. This clip is just the beginning of the chaos. Ukraine made good use of US-provided artillery-launched scattering AT mines, re-mining the entire path of retreat behind these poor fucks. Nearly every vehicle on the field that day was lost and the 155th would soon be forced to reconstitute due to manpower losses. Vuhledar would ultimately hold out as a fortress city for well over a year, despite constant russian assaults, before ultimately falling due to an inept Ukrainian general seeing their good results and deciding that they only really needed one brigade to hold it, not two brigades. Vuhledar (a critical strategic city, far more important than any other russian capture in the past 2-3 years) fell within a month of that decision.
