RUSSIA1 — Nashi. Voenkori
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[00:00:00] highly motivated nationalists, well, in addition,
[00:00:03] who have undergone serious training, the full range
[00:00:07] of artillery weapons, armored
[00:00:10] weapons was used, and the Donetsk airport, the battle for the airport happened
[00:00:14] already after very heavy
[00:00:16] defeats of the Ukrainian army in Ilovaisk, in
[00:00:19] Luhansk, after the kettles,
[00:00:22] accordingly, the militia
[00:00:25] got almost everything that the
[00:00:28] Ukrainian army had. Tanks, artillery,
[00:00:32] grenade launchers, here was a real fight,
[00:00:35] such a
[00:00:36] fight.
[00:00:43] Precise strikes by Russian troops on Ukrainian logistics are increasingly
[00:00:47] undermining the ability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to supply advanced units
[00:00:50] with ammunition, equipment and fuel. This week, NATO countries
[00:00:53] suspended the shipment of dual-use weapons
[00:00:56] through the ports of Nikolaev and Odessa, because
[00:01:00] our army destroys ships with Western supplies and
[00:01:04] hangars with missiles and drones every day, and as a result, in several key
[00:01:08] sectors of the front, Ukrainian formations faced serious
[00:01:11] disruptions, which significantly reduced the mobility of reserves and
[00:01:14] actually collapsed the defense. No less
[00:01:17] painful for the enemy remain strikes on temporary deployment points and
[00:01:21] training centers for mercenary soldiers. The Kyiv command decided
[00:01:24] to compensate for the shortage of personnel by using
[00:01:27] ground robotic systems, and such...
[00:02:12] The device can stay in the air for almost an hour and develop a speed
[00:02:15] of up to 120 km/h and deliver
[00:02:19] cargo weighing up to 15 kg to the target. Such UAVs
[00:02:23] allow operational supply of assault units, dropping
[00:02:26] ammunition and equipment to the front line, and also performing strike missions.
[00:03:30] in a shelter near Dobropol waits for orders and coordinates. This can
[00:03:33] be called a jump-off point, from here the rocket launchers are ready
[00:03:37] to move to a firing position
[00:03:40] at any moment, to launch 40
[00:03:42] unguided high-explosive fragmentation shells at
[00:03:45] the enemy. The BM-21 Grad vehicle
[00:03:48] based on the Ural has protection installed directly from the
[00:03:52] factory, everything is done for the safety of the crew. The crew is waiting for the command, but this does not
[00:03:56] mean that it is idle, it is necessary to be in full combat readiness, so that
[00:04:00] all wheels are intact in the first place, there are no
[00:04:03] cuts anywhere, any malfunction, so that nothing falls off anywhere, even after
[00:04:06] everything has been checked 10 times,
[00:04:10] still, just in case, walking around the car is a habit for Evgeny Gurov,
[00:04:14] developed not by one combat mission in the army. Grad driver since
[00:04:17] 2015 on the fronts of the SVO, since twenty-two. My
[00:04:21] task is to quickly equip myself, while the crew is also preparing,
[00:04:24] the car should already be ready, we quickly move to the given
[00:04:28] point, we set the car in the direction.
[00:04:30] That is, the crew coordinates, aims, we make
[00:04:34] a volley,
[00:04:38] now the Center group of forces is advancing in the Dobropol direction,
[00:04:42] daily liberating settlements on its approaches. Units
[00:04:45] of the Russian army, without exaggeration, are pushing back the enemy,
[00:04:49] here in the frame, a shelter is being destroyed, where drone operators of the
[00:04:53] Ukrainian army were sitting, birdwatchers captured that there were
[00:04:56] UAV launches from there. According to reconnaissance
[00:05:00] data, we left in the morning, worked,
[00:05:04] the target was hit, rolled up everything and safely killed everything in
[00:05:07] its place in waiting. The success of the advance undoubtedly depends on
[00:05:11] the coherence of the units. Grad is still approaching, destroying the enemy, striking
[00:05:15] at its reserves, cutting off ammunition supply routes. One full
[00:05:19] volley covers an area of more than 20 football fields,
[00:05:22] fired immediately for reloading. One shell weighs about
[00:05:25] 60 kilograms. When we were introduced to the crew number, who fills the box
[00:05:29] with ammunition, we thought we would see at least a strong bodybuilder, but
[00:05:33] it turned out that muscles are not important, precise calculation, shares his
[00:05:36] experience, Altaian Anton Kislyakov. How much time
[00:05:40] does it take to complete a full package? A full set,
[00:05:43] well, maximum 15
[00:05:44] minutes.
[00:05:49] There is a lot of work - it's clear, only this crew has to move to
[00:05:52] a firing position several times a day. The Thirty-fifth Brigade of the
[00:05:56] Center group of forces among themselves is rightly called
[00:05:59] invincible, they are always ready to rush into battle.
[00:06:02] From what distance do you work, at what range, as far as I understand. Yes, well,
[00:06:06] maximum, yes, 20, well,
[00:06:09] we work now mostly rarely. when
[00:06:12] we roll up to 15, well, it becomes problematic, we get there
[00:06:15] without problems, rolling back is already difficult,
[00:06:18] we have to fight off drones
[00:06:21] very often.
[00:06:27] The shot,
[00:06:29] advancing units are also covered by tankers. In the frame, the crew of the
[00:06:33] 27th Guards Division of the Center group of forces is firing. In
[00:06:36] these plantings, Nazis have taken root, preventing the advance of our
[00:06:40] assault troops. The role of tanks in modern warfare
[00:06:44] has changed. Due to the abundance of drones on the front, they have become an accessible target,
[00:06:48] now it is risky, as before, to form heavy equipment, strike fists
[00:06:51] to break through the defense. Now these machines are used as maneuverable
[00:06:55] artillery pieces. Unlike self-propelled guns, tanks are more
[00:06:58] mobile, they change position more easily, but they fire at a shorter
[00:07:02] distance. By front-line standards, the enemy has to be approached almost
[00:07:05] point-blank, so every combat mission of tankers is definitely
[00:07:09] a feat. Now for this crew, the distance to the enemy is about
[00:07:13] 10 kilometers. In order not to waste time on calculating target coordinates,
[00:07:16] they use special software. There is a special
[00:07:19] application, we use it to calculate
[00:07:22] coordinates, well, to make it easier to work, so as not to calculate in
[00:07:26] your head there quickly, just enter the coordinates, everything
[00:07:29] is ready, then we wait for the command from the commander, we work.
[00:07:33] Undoubtedly, drones have changed the nature of combat work, now you can't
[00:07:36] stay in position for long, worked and immediately took cover,
[00:07:40] covering advanced units from drones. Video
[00:07:55] should appear, the right to appear, after that the bird is ready
[00:07:58] to fly,
[00:08:02] we take off, a target is detected in our square, now we will
[00:08:05] ram it. In the Krasnolimansky front area, soldiers of the anti-aircraft missile brigade
[00:08:09] of the Western group of forces detected Ukrainian in the sky.
[00:08:27] So we know these routes, we study maps in advance, possible
[00:08:30] flight paths and wait, meet them, yes, if we work, we often shoot down
[00:08:34] drones in a given square, enemy
[00:08:37] drones try to fly around these places,
[00:08:41] so, find new ways.
[00:08:48] We shoot them down, at night a drone can be heard, but to see
[00:08:52] it, special thermal imaging optics are needed, they help our
[00:08:56] firing groups to target
[00:08:57] the target.
[00:09:03] We met Matvey Grebenev, a young guy, but here on the front
[00:09:07] age is not the main thing. A construction student from the Kirov region signed
[00:09:10] a contract and became experienced.
[00:09:42] there are observations of this kind of signal device, including
[00:09:45] traditional means are used, here you see, a flask, in case
[00:09:49] of an attack on this PVN or
[00:09:53] a drone flies, the soldiers also launch such
[00:09:56] signal rockets to alert neighbors and
[00:10:00] directly the unit they are covering.
[00:10:03] The service is not easy, after a day in armor with a raised
[00:10:06] head, the neck just falls off, the eyes hurt from
[00:10:10] constantly observing in binoculars the burned-out.
[00:10:55] so that the enemy bird can change the direction of flight, but
[00:10:58] every signal is processed in combat mode, our
[00:11:02] defenders of the Sky are ready every minute to repel
[00:11:06] the enemy's raid. The pace of advance of Russian troops
[00:11:10] continues to grow, this trend today even Ukrainian analytical
[00:11:13] resources are forced to admit. So, the Deep State monitoring
[00:11:16] channel, which traditionally cautiously assesses the successes
[00:11:20] of our army, calculated that according to the results of July, the area of territories
[00:11:23] that came under the control of Russian troops increased by more than
[00:11:27] 88 km, and this is the highest
[00:11:30] indicator in the last 3 months. The offensive is most active
[00:11:34] on the Druzhkovsky front, where the Russian army consistently paves
[00:11:37] the way to Kramatorsk, liberating one settlement
[00:11:41] after another. The Kyiv regime and the Western press are not happy
[00:11:44] with their assessments. For example, the German publication Welt warns that
[00:11:48] the loss of Kramatorsk could become the most
[00:11:52] severe defeat for the Ukrainian Armed Forces throughout
[00:11:55] the conflict. The authors of the publication call the situation in the north
[00:11:59] of Donbass critical for the Kyiv regime, and there are
[00:12:02] reasons for such conclusions, because the distance to
[00:12:06] the largest hub of Ukrainian defense in Donbass is rapidly
[00:12:09] shrinking. The German observer Julian Röpke writes
[00:12:13] that the initiative is increasingly passing to Russian troops,
[00:12:17] confirming that Kyiv's calculation
[00:12:19] to weaken with strikes on the rear
[00:12:22] did not materialize, they will not be able to stop
[00:12:26] the advance of our troops, attempts by militants to disrupt
[00:12:29] logistics. Transport arteries destroyed by the Ukrainian military during the retreat
[00:12:33] are being restored by servicemen of the railway
[00:12:36] troops. During the special military operation, they
[00:12:39] built more than 100 km of lines from scratch, through which
[00:12:42] uninterrupted supply of advanced positions
[00:12:45] with everything necessary has already been established. About the work
[00:12:49] of railway soldiers. Our military correspondent, Grigory
[00:12:52] Fdovin.
[00:12:59] Soldiers and railway workers build tunnels, but net ones, in the
[00:13:03] SVO zone, modern warfare dictates its own conditions, and
[00:13:06] of course, tsarist engineers could hardly imagine such a thing,
[00:13:10] even in their wildest fantasies. On August
[00:13:13] 6, the railway troops of Russia turned
[00:13:16] 175 years old. We set it up for 70 meters so that
[00:13:20] the observer can see it in advance and give a command to the air,
[00:13:24] so that the personnel can take cover, and as a result,
[00:13:27] if it is in the zone, so to speak, of reach
[00:13:31] of fire, fire is carried out
[00:13:35] on it. Here is one of the downed trophies - it's a Hornet,
[00:13:38] almost intact, the most unpleasant of all the Western
[00:13:42] drone zoo that supplies Ukraine, shot down
[00:13:45] and destroyed by railway soldiers right in
[00:13:48] the process of building this net
[00:13:51] corridor.
[00:13:56] Our hunter is a candidate for master of sports in
[00:13:59] shooting, so he succeeded,
[00:14:02] that's good, but of course, the main purpose
[00:14:06] of railway soldiers in the SVO zone is also rails,
[00:14:10] rails and sleepers, because as they say, when the rails are to
[00:14:13] the horizon - that's fate. I got into the railway troops
[00:14:17] because I am a true railway worker,
[00:14:20] my parents are also military
[00:14:23] railway workers. I graduated from the institute
[00:14:27] and by assignment ended up in the Omsk brigade to
[00:14:31] perform the assigned tasks. Do you dream
[00:14:34] of rails? Of course
[00:14:36] I do. A good dream or is it better not to have
[00:14:40] such a dream? A good dream, railway troops
[00:14:43] are strength, this is a rail spike, this is a rail spike
[00:14:47] hammer, they are used
[00:14:51] for assembling the sleeper
[00:14:53] grid, all 150 years. All
[00:14:57] 150 years. How many blows does it take to drive it in? Well, three, but
[00:14:59] I won't drive it in with three.
[00:15:03] To drive it in with three blows, although with some nuances,
[00:15:06] it works out, because if the track repair has started, then it
[00:15:10] cannot be stopped. The railway legacy from Ukraine
[00:15:14] remained quite dubious, everything here is very clear, these rails
[00:15:17] are not just worn out, but worn out to such
[00:15:20] an extent that they cannot be used, nothing was repaired here
[00:15:24] since the collapse of the Soviet
[00:15:27] Union, and precisely here a comprehensive military
[00:15:30] railway approach is very much needed. The track is being revived by
[00:15:34] the guys from the consolidated railway recovery battalion.
[00:17:07] this unusual train and its crew are ready to carry out the order
[00:17:11] and are, as they say, under steam, that is, waiting for their hour, which,
[00:17:15] of course, will still
[00:17:16] come.
[00:17:23] You have fire, the dive has begun, and you finish
[00:17:26] here, understood? Well, of course, a railway soldier is first and foremost
[00:17:30] a soldier, he must be prepared for modern combat operations
[00:17:33] no less than for replacing sleepers. We are preparing
[00:17:37] the first gift, after throwing the first grenade, we immediately go down
[00:17:41] to cover, preparing the second gift
[00:17:43] immediately.
[00:17:46] High-tech, let's say, warfare, a lot
[00:17:50] of unmanned aerial vehicles, which need to be countered,
[00:17:54] and which it is necessary to teach personnel
[00:17:57] to fire from a machine gun, for example, from
[00:18:00] standard weapons, we also train
[00:18:04] shooting from under-barrel grenade launchers,
[00:18:08] from hand grenade launchers. Railway troops now, now they often set tasks
[00:18:11] for security, for
[00:18:13] delivery,
[00:18:16] ah,
[00:18:21] supply, security of the rear. Thank God,
[00:18:25] so far everything is fine with me, I want to wish the personnel, this is the very first thing -
[00:18:29] strong health, namely physical endurance,
[00:18:32] overcoming all misfortunes, difficulties, obstacles,
[00:18:35] especially those who are... in the zone of the special military operation,
[00:18:39] railway troops are called to build and defend, victory will be
[00:18:43] ours. In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops are increasing
[00:18:47] pressure on the enemy in the north. An operational encirclement is forming
[00:18:50] near Vovchansk, in which several
[00:18:54] battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces may find themselves. The liberation of the settlement Bely Kolodez, until
[00:18:57] recently the main logistics hub of the Ukrainian garrison
[00:19:00] in this sector, was indicative. The operation
[00:19:04] was the result of coordinated work of various
[00:19:08] units. The path for the assault troops of the North group was cleared by artillery
[00:19:11] crews of multiple launch rocket systems, RHBZ units,
[00:19:15] unmanned complex operators, suppressing firing points and destroying
[00:19:18] enemy defensive lines.
[00:19:21] Our military encircled the Ukrainian group on the border with the Belgorod
[00:19:25] region, and now a vast section
[00:19:29] of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense is under attack, along with a network of strongholds.
[00:19:32] Well, the elimination of this bridgehead will allow us to push
[00:19:36] the front line even further from
[00:19:39] Russian territory, significantly of border areas.
[00:19:55] A serious blow to the transport logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was inflicted by the Russian Aerospace Forces,
[00:19:58] with three heavy aerial bombs a strategic crossing over
[00:20:02] the Seversky Donets river on the border with the DPR was hit, which limits for
[00:20:06] the Kyiv command.
[00:20:39] 24/7 ready to repel
[00:20:42] raids. The Russian Ministry of Defense
[00:20:45] reports daily on dozens or even hundreds
[00:20:48] of enemy UAVs shot down over various regions of Russia. This is
[00:20:52] a huge collective effort, involving
[00:20:56] air defense systems, aviation, electronic warfare
[00:20:59] systems, and of course, mobile fire
[00:21:02] groups.
[00:21:08] Preparation for the work of the mobile fire group of the separate
[00:21:11] sabotage and reconnaissance detachment Buran of the volunteer corps
[00:21:14] begins long before departure. To the brim
[00:21:17] with ammunition, fuel, but the main thing is coolness and
[00:21:21] endurance.
[00:21:29] Around Lugansk, mobile fire groups begin to disperse
[00:21:32] before sunset. By the time darkness falls, each
[00:21:36] of them must already take a position in its
[00:21:40] clearly pre-prepared point. However, these points also
[00:21:43] constantly change, this depends on
[00:21:46] the routes of movement of the enemy's UAVs. With the soldiers
[00:21:50] of Maestro's company, we arrive at a position where the enemy's strike
[00:21:53] wings are most often noted, and the further
[00:21:57] the sun goes beyond the horizon, the faster the excitement grows,
[00:22:01] on the one hand, combat excitement, the shooters say, on the other hand,
[00:22:05] huge
[00:22:05] responsibility.
[00:22:13] Sometimes they come in at 800
[00:22:16] meters, fly at height, that is, sometimes...
[00:23:20] just now the information came that
[00:23:23] drones are coming, no less than five
[00:23:26] pieces, the mobile fire group is generally ready to
[00:23:30] work, now
[00:23:32] the main thing is not to miss, if
[00:23:36] they don't move anywhere, they will come right at us,
[00:23:40] a large group, yes, a large one, eight pieces, further
[00:23:43] events we observe already through the thermal imager sight
[00:23:47] of the machine gun pair,
[00:23:50] all in position to
[00:23:51] battle,
[00:23:56] that's it, there it is, falling, falling, falling,
[00:23:58] falling,
[00:24:01] trying to bypass mobile fire ambushes, say the soldiers of the Buran
[00:24:04] detachment, the enemy constantly changes flight paths, along
[00:24:08] with this, he increasingly conducts a real hunt for
[00:24:11] the mobile fire groups themselves, that's when, says machine gunner with
[00:24:14] the call sign Toshek, one of the most difficult moments of
[00:24:18] work begins. What is the most difficult thing about mobile fire groups' work? Not
[00:24:22] to get carried away, when a drone comes at you, to
[00:24:26] have time to jump out of the car, you already
[00:24:29] think, now, now you'll shoot it down, now it should fall,
[00:24:33] but it's coming at you, it happened
[00:24:36] several times, then already
[00:24:40] after, as they say,
[00:24:43] battle, you think that, damn, I should have
[00:24:47] jumped out already, and the very next evening... Everything
[00:24:50] repeats again, and without breaks,
[00:24:54] come on,
[00:25:02] target hit, returning,
[00:25:14] and this is the opposite side of the Luhansk People's
[00:25:17] Republic, the area of responsibility of the Sever brigade
[00:25:20] of the volunteer corps. Their task is to counter heavy
[00:25:24] long-range Ukrainian Armed Forces drones, which daily try
[00:25:28] to penetrate deep into Russian territory. As of today,
[00:25:31] this is one of the most important
[00:25:35] physical barriers in the path of drone
[00:25:38] flights. The route is difficult, several hours of waiting,
[00:25:41] changing transport, a real military rally
[00:25:45] begins across rough terrain. And
[00:25:48] off we go again. Again
[00:25:50] to take over,
[00:25:54] that is, some information comes in,
[00:25:57] right? How does it work? Yes, of course, information comes in when
[00:26:00] they... start changing their
[00:26:03] routes.
[00:26:06] Instructions are received via radio to join the mobile group
[00:26:09] Zu-23, located in the back of an army Ural truck.
[00:26:13] However, doing so is not that
[00:26:15] easy.
[00:26:19] Hundred will go. I must say
[00:26:23] that this is a real hunt. In general,
[00:26:26] yes. That is, constantly
[00:26:30] jumping.
[00:26:32] And the heavy, seemingly Ural,
[00:26:34] moves with such ease,
[00:26:37] literally flying the road, well, here
[00:26:41] the driver's experience in such
[00:26:42] conditions,
[00:26:46] yes, here whoever is faster, whoever is more experienced wins.
[00:27:01] already heard.
[00:27:32] when we were driving,
[00:27:36] yes, indeed, a lot depends on the driver's skill,
[00:27:40] yes, a flight is planned, it seems, according to operational data,
[00:27:43] as it is said, well, you just stomped on it, we barely
[00:27:46] kept up with you, it is not
[00:27:50] recommended to step on the combat, as they
[00:27:53] say. The senior crew of the ZU-23 with the call
[00:27:56] sign "Busik" says that they have to work like this
[00:27:59] almost every night. Well, for example, we positioned ourselves,
[00:28:03] everything starts to fly, they already
[00:28:06] tell us in advance where they are going, if,
[00:28:09] for example, we start working on the first one, the rest of the subsequent ones
[00:28:12] that fly behind it already change their
[00:28:16] course. The commander of the mobile fire group with the call sign "Luma"
[00:28:19] says that their work is not limited to shooting at flying
[00:28:23] targets, it is a whole system of interaction between many
[00:28:27] departments. We are in contact with other
[00:28:29] units from... from higher
[00:28:33] echelons, middle echelons, with short-range radio action, that is
[00:28:37] it's a whole such, let's call it perhaps,
[00:28:40] interdepartmental coalition that works
[00:28:44] to suppress enemy drones, that is, it's in
[00:28:47] this, in this group,
[00:28:50] the Ministry of Defense, and volunteer detachments,
[00:28:53] police, and Rosgvardia, and even the Ministry of Emergency Situations, yes,
[00:28:56] the work of the shooters itself, says Luma, requires special
[00:28:59] attention and understanding, we don't shoot. there
[00:29:02] wherever, that is, we are always in positions, when we arrive, we
[00:29:05] know where we can shoot, where we can't shoot, where
[00:29:09] it is desirable for the drone to fall, that is, we always take all these moments into account, that is,
[00:29:12] local residents,
[00:29:14] infrastructure.
[00:29:23] Everyone who is not currently on a combat mission practices
[00:29:27] shooting skills at the training ground, day and night, from ordinary
[00:29:30] soldiers to commanders. Training
[00:29:33] of assault groups and mobile fire groups, right now we
[00:29:36] are specifically training a mobile fire group, this is a flying object, now here it
[00:29:40] is small, but the smaller it is, the better they hit, the more they hit
[00:29:44] a large one, they shoot preemptively somehow else, so there is
[00:29:47] a difference, but it is minimal, in fact, well, in fact, we train everyone
[00:29:51] so that everyone can even be interchangeable, today he is
[00:29:55] an assault trooper, tomorrow he is in a mobile fire group. Simulators are assembled
[00:29:58] mostly by hand, under combat mission conditions. As
[00:30:02] aerial targets, both professional
[00:30:05] stands and very unexpected
[00:30:08] solutions are used. Launching real FPV drones for training,
[00:30:12] of course, would be quite an expensive pleasure, so
[00:30:15] here are the instructors from the SeverV brigade
[00:30:19] use these, well, you could say toys, a small radio-controlled
[00:30:23] airplane, quite in flight
[00:30:25] imitates an FPV drone, it's quite
[00:30:29] difficult to hit it, but nevertheless this is being practiced...
[00:30:32] breakthroughs, and no matter how hard the enemy tries, they constantly change
[00:30:36] the tactics of using attack drones, mobile fire groups
[00:30:39] of the volunteer corps 24/7,
[00:30:42] are ready to repel
[00:30:44] raids.
[00:30:47] In the moment, in motion, in combat work, we see new outlines of the front
[00:30:51] line in their reports. Our war correspondents
[00:30:54] report from all directions
[00:30:55] of the special operation.