Foreign fighters storm frontline trenches ‘killing 22 Russians’

New heart-stopping battleground footage has captured the second a unit made up of English-speaking international fighters ‘killed 22 Russian troopers’ as they stormed a trench in Ukraine.

The unit, shaped of Ukrainian troopers in addition to British, American, Canadian, Irish and Australians, got here below intense drone bombardment because it carried out its mission to seize a tactically ‘dominant’ location close to Avdiivka, Eastern Ukraine.

Footage of the assault – which left not less than one British fighter injured – was launched on-line on Tuesday by the 59th Motor Rifle Brigade, which added commentary to the clips.

The commander of the corporate doesn’t reveal the precise location of the assault, as a substitute referring to the place as ‘105-106 Heights’.

He describes the fight seen within the footage as probably the most brutal combat his unit has skilled when combating for a place, telling viewers ‘the [Russian] opponents concentrated quite a lot of sources to carry it’.

‘I feel this [mission] will go down in historical past as an exemplary assault, which was carried out with character and fixed stress on the enemy,’ he stated, introducing the extreme 16-minute video of brutal, real-world fight.

Filmed by drones and body-mounted cameras, the footage exhibits the Brigade’s assault models Alpha, Bravo and Charlie storm the trenches below a hail of bullets and eradicate a number of Russian troopers who’ve hunkered down there.

It opens with the Ukrainian troops in a convoy of armoured army vehicles – rushing down the aspect of a row of lifeless bushes lining huge, open, bombed-out fields. 

A date stamp on the footage – launched by Ukrainian YouTube channel Butusov Plus – exhibits that it was filmed on August 23, 2023.

Instantly the sound of gunfire is heard being exchanged between the mounted machine weapons on the vehicles and the Russian troopers hiding within the trenches.

‘F***ng hell,’ one of many fighters will be heard saying in a thick English accent. Another, in an American accent this time, says: ‘That’s Russian.’

As the vehicles decelerate and the fighters put together to launch their assault on foot, one of many armoured autos is hit by an explosion, launching grime into the air.

Undeterred, the camouflaged-clad gunmen press on, climbing out of the vehicles and taking over positions to offer overlaying hearth for his or her comrades.

To shouts of ‘push up’ over the din of gunfire, the unit begins to advance on the trenches. One of the vehicles is seen closely broken, with troopers climbing out. It would not seem that any of them had been badly injured.

One of the troopers filming the assault shouts ‘frag out’ earlier than hurling a grenade into the sparsely wooded space, the place the Russians are bedded down in cowl.

Drone footage is interspersed with the first-person fight footage, utilizing superimposed flags to point out the place the Alpha, Bravo and Charlie models are in relation to the Russians within the trenches.

This video exhibits the treeline, and the way the three models of the Ukrainian aspect labored to encompass two Russian models, sending one down the center and two both aspect.

Despite coming below intense hearth and a number of other explosions going rocking the bottom round them, Ukraine’s fighters are seen swiftly advancing to the treeline.

The footage exhibits one member of the Alpha group shoot lifeless at one enemy soldier, who makes the deadly error of leaving the duvet of the trenches.

Another Russian soldier seen mendacity on the ground of the ditch, and can also be seen being shot as one of many Ukrainian fighters advances.

With the Ukrainian fighters now embedded within the trenches, the sound of a drone will be heard buzzing in overhead, forcing the troopers to take cowl.

‘Suicide drone!’ the troopers will be heard shouting to one another as a warning.

The footage then cuts to the digital camera mounted on a Canadian’s helmet, who shouts to his comrades ‘I’m hit!’ 

He seems to be coated in grime, suggesting he was near the place the Russian suicide drone struck. ‘Coming mate, coming,’ an Australian fighter is heard saying as he rushes to his comrade’s support.

The Canadian’s fingers are visibly shaking, however after a check-up, the Australian tells him that he ‘seems good’, encouraging him to get again on his ft.

The Canadian shouldn’t be in a position to stand, however crawls by the ditch to cowl. 

The footage then cuts to a drone filming the Charlie group, which seems to be made up of six troopers – all bearing down on a Russian place which seems to incorporate an enemy fighter with a grenade launcher.

Several explosions ship them to the bottom, however all of them get again on their ft rapidly and proceed to push on.

At the opposite finish of the ditch, the Alpha and Bravo groups have a gaggle of Russian troopers pinned down, and are inching their means in the direction of the place.

The Ukrainian drone hovering above the battlefield exhibits that one of many Russian troopers is badly wounded and is being handled on the ground of the ditch.

However, as a British soldier from Alpha unit approaches a close-by bend within the trench, the wounded Russian soldier is ready to hearth off a hail of bullets from his machine gun – blasting the Brit with a number of rounds, sending him flying backwards.

‘Man down!’ one of many fighters on the Ukrainian aspect shouts as they return hearth.

Two of the fighters of the Ukrainian aspect push additional up the ditch whereas one other brings up the rear to offer medical support to the British soldier. 

Miraculously, he survived the preliminary burst of gunfire, and will be seen transferring.

To add to the chaos within the trenches, one other suicide drone is seen overhead and mercifully slams down into the bottom a matter of ft away from Alpha’s place. 

With the drone lacking its goal, a fighter with an American accent continues to help his downed comrade, whose nickname seems to be ‘Mossy’.

‘Alright Mossy,’ he says. ‘I’m going to must molest you a bit bit so I can get these grenades out of you,’ whereas serving to him to raise his arms barely. Although dazed, ‘Mossy’ seems to be responsive and transferring as his comrade retrieves grenades.

Re-armed with the explosives, Alpha unit is then in a position to advance additional down the trenches and take out the surrounded Russia place. Blurred footage later exhibits the physique of the Russian soldier who shot the British fighter on the bottom.

The footage cuts once more, this time to fighters in Bravo squad – two of that are seen hunkered down in a ditch suffering from particles and fallen bushes, whereas one other two are seen in a small bunker dug into the bottom.

The commentary by the 59th Motor Rifle Brigade’s commander returns once more briefly.

With one flank of the Russian defence worn out, he explains that the models – Alfa-Bravo to the left and Charlie to the fitting – are in a ‘tough second’ as they shut in on the remaining surrounded Russia place.

He explains that the Russians are dug between two positions, with 5 enemy troopers having taken cowl in holes within the floor. There is a danger, he says, of pleasant hearth, because the Ukrainian troops method from either side.

This, he says, means the Ukrainian models must be affected person and wait till they will take photographs on the Russians with out hitting their comrades on the opposite aspect.

Back with a digital camera mounted on a Bravo group soldier, the footage exhibits two Russian troopers all of the sudden working by the bushes – out of canopy.

The soldier with the digital camera shoots one, however the different runs in the direction of the Ukrainian fighter’s place and into the ditch – shut sufficient to see his face.

He seems confused, misplaced virtually, and unarmed. He holds his fingers up in entrance of his physique, and the white ‘Z’ of the Russian military is seen on his armoured vest.

Meanwhile, the fighter with the digital camera, who seems to have an American accent, will be heard shouting ‘what the f***’ – earlier than the Russian sprints away once more.

The the rest of the footage – shot by a drone – exhibits the Ukrainian models regularly choosing off the remaining enemy troopers one after the other, finishing the mission.

It was not instantly clear what number of casualties the Ukrainian models took, but it surely was reported on-line {that a} whole of twenty-two Russian troopers had been killed, and two captured. 

Avdiivka has turn out to be a lethal flash-point within the virtually two-year lengthy battle.

In 2023, Ukrainian models crashed in opposition to stable Russian defence and it’s now Moscow’s troops on the assault, notably round Avdiivka.

As with Bakhmut earlier in 2023, this industrial metropolis on the japanese entrance has turn out to be a brand new image for Ukrainian resistance. 

Massively destroyed, it nonetheless has round 900 residents in comparison with 30,000 earlier than the battle. However, the Russian noose is slowly tightening and a Ukrainian retreat can’t be excluded.

Avdiivka’s mayor Vitaly Barabash has referred to as the scenario ‘crucial’ in current days and stated there may be now house-to-house combating within the metropolis.

Russia has been sending ‘waves’ of males and the encompassing fields are ‘suffering from corpses’, in line with troopers defending the town.