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00:00:00highly motivated nationalists, well, in addition,
00:00:03who have undergone serious training, the full range
00:00:07of artillery weapons, armored
00:00:10weapons was used, and the Donetsk airport, the battle for the airport happened
00:00:14already after very heavy
00:00:16defeats of the Ukrainian army in Ilovaisk, in
00:00:19Luhansk, after the kettles,
00:00:22accordingly, the militia
00:00:25got almost everything that the
00:00:28Ukrainian army had. Tanks, artillery,
00:00:32grenade launchers, here was a real fight,
00:00:35such a
00:00:36fight.
00:00:43Precise strikes by Russian troops on Ukrainian logistics are increasingly
00:00:47undermining the ability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to supply advanced units
00:00:50with ammunition, equipment and fuel. This week, NATO countries
00:00:53suspended the shipment of dual-use weapons
00:00:56through the ports of Nikolaev and Odessa, because
00:01:00our army destroys ships with Western supplies and
00:01:04hangars with missiles and drones every day, and as a result, in several key
00:01:08sectors of the front, Ukrainian formations faced serious
00:01:11disruptions, which significantly reduced the mobility of reserves and
00:01:14actually collapsed the defense. No less
00:01:17painful for the enemy remain strikes on temporary deployment points and
00:01:21training centers for mercenary soldiers. The Kyiv command decided
00:01:24to compensate for the shortage of personnel by using
00:01:27ground robotic systems, and such...
00:02:12The device can stay in the air for almost an hour and develop a speed
00:02:15of up to 120 km/h and deliver
00:02:19cargo weighing up to 15 kg to the target. Such UAVs
00:02:23allow operational supply of assault units, dropping
00:02:26ammunition and equipment to the front line, and also performing strike missions.
00:03:30in a shelter near Dobropol waits for orders and coordinates. This can
00:03:33be called a jump-off point, from here the rocket launchers are ready
00:03:37to move to a firing position
00:03:40at any moment, to launch 40
00:03:42unguided high-explosive fragmentation shells at
00:03:45the enemy. The BM-21 Grad vehicle
00:03:48based on the Ural has protection installed directly from the
00:03:52factory, everything is done for the safety of the crew. The crew is waiting for the command, but this does not
00:03:56mean that it is idle, it is necessary to be in full combat readiness, so that
00:04:00all wheels are intact in the first place, there are no
00:04:03cuts anywhere, any malfunction, so that nothing falls off anywhere, even after
00:04:06everything has been checked 10 times,
00:04:10still, just in case, walking around the car is a habit for Evgeny Gurov,
00:04:14developed not by one combat mission in the army. Grad driver since
00:04:172015 on the fronts of the SVO, since twenty-two. My
00:04:21task is to quickly equip myself, while the crew is also preparing,
00:04:24the car should already be ready, we quickly move to the given
00:04:28point, we set the car in the direction.
00:04:30That is, the crew coordinates, aims, we make
00:04:34a volley,
00:04:38now the Center group of forces is advancing in the Dobropol direction,
00:04:42daily liberating settlements on its approaches. Units
00:04:45of the Russian army, without exaggeration, are pushing back the enemy,
00:04:49here in the frame, a shelter is being destroyed, where drone operators of the
00:04:53Ukrainian army were sitting, birdwatchers captured that there were
00:04:56UAV launches from there. According to reconnaissance
00:05:00data, we left in the morning, worked,
00:05:04the target was hit, rolled up everything and safely killed everything in
00:05:07its place in waiting. The success of the advance undoubtedly depends on
00:05:11the coherence of the units. Grad is still approaching, destroying the enemy, striking
00:05:15at its reserves, cutting off ammunition supply routes. One full
00:05:19volley covers an area of more than 20 football fields,
00:05:22fired immediately for reloading. One shell weighs about
00:05:2560 kilograms. When we were introduced to the crew number, who fills the box
00:05:29with ammunition, we thought we would see at least a strong bodybuilder, but
00:05:33it turned out that muscles are not important, precise calculation, shares his
00:05:36experience, Altaian Anton Kislyakov. How much time
00:05:40does it take to complete a full package? A full set,
00:05:43well, maximum 15
00:05:44minutes.
00:05:49There is a lot of work - it's clear, only this crew has to move to
00:05:52a firing position several times a day. The Thirty-fifth Brigade of the
00:05:56Center group of forces among themselves is rightly called
00:05:59invincible, they are always ready to rush into battle.
00:06:02From what distance do you work, at what range, as far as I understand. Yes, well,
00:06:06maximum, yes, 20, well,
00:06:09we work now mostly rarely. when
00:06:12we roll up to 15, well, it becomes problematic, we get there
00:06:15without problems, rolling back is already difficult,
00:06:18we have to fight off drones
00:06:21very often.
00:06:27The shot,
00:06:29advancing units are also covered by tankers. In the frame, the crew of the
00:06:3327th Guards Division of the Center group of forces is firing. In
00:06:36these plantings, Nazis have taken root, preventing the advance of our
00:06:40assault troops. The role of tanks in modern warfare
00:06:44has changed. Due to the abundance of drones on the front, they have become an accessible target,
00:06:48now it is risky, as before, to form heavy equipment, strike fists
00:06:51to break through the defense. Now these machines are used as maneuverable
00:06:55artillery pieces. Unlike self-propelled guns, tanks are more
00:06:58mobile, they change position more easily, but they fire at a shorter
00:07:02distance. By front-line standards, the enemy has to be approached almost
00:07:05point-blank, so every combat mission of tankers is definitely
00:07:09a feat. Now for this crew, the distance to the enemy is about
00:07:1310 kilometers. In order not to waste time on calculating target coordinates,
00:07:16they use special software. There is a special
00:07:19application, we use it to calculate
00:07:22coordinates, well, to make it easier to work, so as not to calculate in
00:07:26your head there quickly, just enter the coordinates, everything
00:07:29is ready, then we wait for the command from the commander, we work.
00:07:33Undoubtedly, drones have changed the nature of combat work, now you can't
00:07:36stay in position for long, worked and immediately took cover,
00:07:40covering advanced units from drones. Video
00:07:55should appear, the right to appear, after that the bird is ready
00:07:58to fly,
00:08:02we take off, a target is detected in our square, now we will
00:08:05ram it. In the Krasnolimansky front area, soldiers of the anti-aircraft missile brigade
00:08:09of the Western group of forces detected Ukrainian in the sky.
00:08:27So we know these routes, we study maps in advance, possible
00:08:30flight paths and wait, meet them, yes, if we work, we often shoot down
00:08:34drones in a given square, enemy
00:08:37drones try to fly around these places,
00:08:41so, find new ways.
00:08:48We shoot them down, at night a drone can be heard, but to see
00:08:52it, special thermal imaging optics are needed, they help our
00:08:56firing groups to target
00:08:57the target.
00:09:03We met Matvey Grebenev, a young guy, but here on the front
00:09:07age is not the main thing. A construction student from the Kirov region signed
00:09:10a contract and became experienced.
00:09:42there are observations of this kind of signal device, including
00:09:45traditional means are used, here you see, a flask, in case
00:09:49of an attack on this PVN or
00:09:53a drone flies, the soldiers also launch such
00:09:56signal rockets to alert neighbors and
00:10:00directly the unit they are covering.
00:10:03The service is not easy, after a day in armor with a raised
00:10:06head, the neck just falls off, the eyes hurt from
00:10:10constantly observing in binoculars the burned-out.
00:10:55so that the enemy bird can change the direction of flight, but
00:10:58every signal is processed in combat mode, our
00:11:02defenders of the Sky are ready every minute to repel
00:11:06the enemy's raid. The pace of advance of Russian troops
00:11:10continues to grow, this trend today even Ukrainian analytical
00:11:13resources are forced to admit. So, the Deep State monitoring
00:11:16channel, which traditionally cautiously assesses the successes
00:11:20of our army, calculated that according to the results of July, the area of territories
00:11:23that came under the control of Russian troops increased by more than
00:11:2788 km, and this is the highest
00:11:30indicator in the last 3 months. The offensive is most active
00:11:34on the Druzhkovsky front, where the Russian army consistently paves
00:11:37the way to Kramatorsk, liberating one settlement
00:11:41after another. The Kyiv regime and the Western press are not happy
00:11:44with their assessments. For example, the German publication Welt warns that
00:11:48the loss of Kramatorsk could become the most
00:11:52severe defeat for the Ukrainian Armed Forces throughout
00:11:55the conflict. The authors of the publication call the situation in the north
00:11:59of Donbass critical for the Kyiv regime, and there are
00:12:02reasons for such conclusions, because the distance to
00:12:06the largest hub of Ukrainian defense in Donbass is rapidly
00:12:09shrinking. The German observer Julian Röpke writes
00:12:13that the initiative is increasingly passing to Russian troops,
00:12:17confirming that Kyiv's calculation
00:12:19to weaken with strikes on the rear
00:12:22did not materialize, they will not be able to stop
00:12:26the advance of our troops, attempts by militants to disrupt
00:12:29logistics. Transport arteries destroyed by the Ukrainian military during the retreat
00:12:33are being restored by servicemen of the railway
00:12:36troops. During the special military operation, they
00:12:39built more than 100 km of lines from scratch, through which
00:12:42uninterrupted supply of advanced positions
00:12:45with everything necessary has already been established. About the work
00:12:49of railway soldiers. Our military correspondent, Grigory
00:12:52Fdovin.
00:12:59Soldiers and railway workers build tunnels, but net ones, in the
00:13:03SVO zone, modern warfare dictates its own conditions, and
00:13:06of course, tsarist engineers could hardly imagine such a thing,
00:13:10even in their wildest fantasies. On August
00:13:136, the railway troops of Russia turned
00:13:16175 years old. We set it up for 70 meters so that
00:13:20the observer can see it in advance and give a command to the air,
00:13:24so that the personnel can take cover, and as a result,
00:13:27if it is in the zone, so to speak, of reach
00:13:31of fire, fire is carried out
00:13:35on it. Here is one of the downed trophies - it's a Hornet,
00:13:38almost intact, the most unpleasant of all the Western
00:13:42drone zoo that supplies Ukraine, shot down
00:13:45and destroyed by railway soldiers right in
00:13:48the process of building this net
00:13:51corridor.
00:13:56Our hunter is a candidate for master of sports in
00:13:59shooting, so he succeeded,
00:14:02that's good, but of course, the main purpose
00:14:06of railway soldiers in the SVO zone is also rails,
00:14:10rails and sleepers, because as they say, when the rails are to
00:14:13the horizon - that's fate. I got into the railway troops
00:14:17because I am a true railway worker,
00:14:20my parents are also military
00:14:23railway workers. I graduated from the institute
00:14:27and by assignment ended up in the Omsk brigade to
00:14:31perform the assigned tasks. Do you dream
00:14:34of rails? Of course
00:14:36I do. A good dream or is it better not to have
00:14:40such a dream? A good dream, railway troops
00:14:43are strength, this is a rail spike, this is a rail spike
00:14:47hammer, they are used
00:14:51for assembling the sleeper
00:14:53grid, all 150 years. All
00:14:57150 years. How many blows does it take to drive it in? Well, three, but
00:14:59I won't drive it in with three.
00:15:03To drive it in with three blows, although with some nuances,
00:15:06it works out, because if the track repair has started, then it
00:15:10cannot be stopped. The railway legacy from Ukraine
00:15:14remained quite dubious, everything here is very clear, these rails
00:15:17are not just worn out, but worn out to such
00:15:20an extent that they cannot be used, nothing was repaired here
00:15:24since the collapse of the Soviet
00:15:27Union, and precisely here a comprehensive military
00:15:30railway approach is very much needed. The track is being revived by
00:15:34the guys from the consolidated railway recovery battalion.
00:17:07this unusual train and its crew are ready to carry out the order
00:17:11and are, as they say, under steam, that is, waiting for their hour, which,
00:17:15of course, will still
00:17:16come.
00:17:23You have fire, the dive has begun, and you finish
00:17:26here, understood? Well, of course, a railway soldier is first and foremost
00:17:30a soldier, he must be prepared for modern combat operations
00:17:33no less than for replacing sleepers. We are preparing
00:17:37the first gift, after throwing the first grenade, we immediately go down
00:17:41to cover, preparing the second gift
00:17:43immediately.
00:17:46High-tech, let's say, warfare, a lot
00:17:50of unmanned aerial vehicles, which need to be countered,
00:17:54and which it is necessary to teach personnel
00:17:57to fire from a machine gun, for example, from
00:18:00standard weapons, we also train
00:18:04shooting from under-barrel grenade launchers,
00:18:08from hand grenade launchers. Railway troops now, now they often set tasks
00:18:11for security, for
00:18:13delivery,
00:18:16ah,
00:18:21supply, security of the rear. Thank God,
00:18:25so far everything is fine with me, I want to wish the personnel, this is the very first thing -
00:18:29strong health, namely physical endurance,
00:18:32overcoming all misfortunes, difficulties, obstacles,
00:18:35especially those who are... in the zone of the special military operation,
00:18:39railway troops are called to build and defend, victory will be
00:18:43ours. In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops are increasing
00:18:47pressure on the enemy in the north. An operational encirclement is forming
00:18:50near Vovchansk, in which several
00:18:54battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces may find themselves. The liberation of the settlement Bely Kolodez, until
00:18:57recently the main logistics hub of the Ukrainian garrison
00:19:00in this sector, was indicative. The operation
00:19:04was the result of coordinated work of various
00:19:08units. The path for the assault troops of the North group was cleared by artillery
00:19:11crews of multiple launch rocket systems, RHBZ units,
00:19:15unmanned complex operators, suppressing firing points and destroying
00:19:18enemy defensive lines.
00:19:21Our military encircled the Ukrainian group on the border with the Belgorod
00:19:25region, and now a vast section
00:19:29of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense is under attack, along with a network of strongholds.
00:19:32Well, the elimination of this bridgehead will allow us to push
00:19:36the front line even further from
00:19:39Russian territory, significantly of border areas.
00:19:55A serious blow to the transport logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was inflicted by the Russian Aerospace Forces,
00:19:58with three heavy aerial bombs a strategic crossing over
00:20:02the Seversky Donets river on the border with the DPR was hit, which limits for
00:20:06the Kyiv command.
00:20:3924/7 ready to repel
00:20:42raids. The Russian Ministry of Defense
00:20:45reports daily on dozens or even hundreds
00:20:48of enemy UAVs shot down over various regions of Russia. This is
00:20:52a huge collective effort, involving
00:20:56air defense systems, aviation, electronic warfare
00:20:59systems, and of course, mobile fire
00:21:02groups.
00:21:08Preparation for the work of the mobile fire group of the separate
00:21:11sabotage and reconnaissance detachment Buran of the volunteer corps
00:21:14begins long before departure. To the brim
00:21:17with ammunition, fuel, but the main thing is coolness and
00:21:21endurance.
00:21:29Around Lugansk, mobile fire groups begin to disperse
00:21:32before sunset. By the time darkness falls, each
00:21:36of them must already take a position in its
00:21:40clearly pre-prepared point. However, these points also
00:21:43constantly change, this depends on
00:21:46the routes of movement of the enemy's UAVs. With the soldiers
00:21:50of Maestro's company, we arrive at a position where the enemy's strike
00:21:53wings are most often noted, and the further
00:21:57the sun goes beyond the horizon, the faster the excitement grows,
00:22:01on the one hand, combat excitement, the shooters say, on the other hand,
00:22:05huge
00:22:05responsibility.
00:22:13Sometimes they come in at 800
00:22:16meters, fly at height, that is, sometimes...
00:23:20just now the information came that
00:23:23drones are coming, no less than five
00:23:26pieces, the mobile fire group is generally ready to
00:23:30work, now
00:23:32the main thing is not to miss, if
00:23:36they don't move anywhere, they will come right at us,
00:23:40a large group, yes, a large one, eight pieces, further
00:23:43events we observe already through the thermal imager sight
00:23:47of the machine gun pair,
00:23:50all in position to
00:23:51battle,
00:23:56that's it, there it is, falling, falling, falling,
00:23:58falling,
00:24:01trying to bypass mobile fire ambushes, say the soldiers of the Buran
00:24:04detachment, the enemy constantly changes flight paths, along
00:24:08with this, he increasingly conducts a real hunt for
00:24:11the mobile fire groups themselves, that's when, says machine gunner with
00:24:14the call sign Toshek, one of the most difficult moments of
00:24:18work begins. What is the most difficult thing about mobile fire groups' work? Not
00:24:22to get carried away, when a drone comes at you, to
00:24:26have time to jump out of the car, you already
00:24:29think, now, now you'll shoot it down, now it should fall,
00:24:33but it's coming at you, it happened
00:24:36several times, then already
00:24:40after, as they say,
00:24:43battle, you think that, damn, I should have
00:24:47jumped out already, and the very next evening... Everything
00:24:50repeats again, and without breaks,
00:24:54come on,
00:25:02target hit, returning,
00:25:14and this is the opposite side of the Luhansk People's
00:25:17Republic, the area of responsibility of the Sever brigade
00:25:20of the volunteer corps. Their task is to counter heavy
00:25:24long-range Ukrainian Armed Forces drones, which daily try
00:25:28to penetrate deep into Russian territory. As of today,
00:25:31this is one of the most important
00:25:35physical barriers in the path of drone
00:25:38flights. The route is difficult, several hours of waiting,
00:25:41changing transport, a real military rally
00:25:45begins across rough terrain. And
00:25:48off we go again. Again
00:25:50to take over,
00:25:54that is, some information comes in,
00:25:57right? How does it work? Yes, of course, information comes in when
00:26:00they... start changing their
00:26:03routes.
00:26:06Instructions are received via radio to join the mobile group
00:26:09Zu-23, located in the back of an army Ural truck.
00:26:13However, doing so is not that
00:26:15easy.
00:26:19Hundred will go. I must say
00:26:23that this is a real hunt. In general,
00:26:26yes. That is, constantly
00:26:30jumping.
00:26:32And the heavy, seemingly Ural,
00:26:34moves with such ease,
00:26:37literally flying the road, well, here
00:26:41the driver's experience in such
00:26:42conditions,
00:26:46yes, here whoever is faster, whoever is more experienced wins.
00:27:01already heard.
00:27:32when we were driving,
00:27:36yes, indeed, a lot depends on the driver's skill,
00:27:40yes, a flight is planned, it seems, according to operational data,
00:27:43as it is said, well, you just stomped on it, we barely
00:27:46kept up with you, it is not
00:27:50recommended to step on the combat, as they
00:27:53say. The senior crew of the ZU-23 with the call
00:27:56sign "Busik" says that they have to work like this
00:27:59almost every night. Well, for example, we positioned ourselves,
00:28:03everything starts to fly, they already
00:28:06tell us in advance where they are going, if,
00:28:09for example, we start working on the first one, the rest of the subsequent ones
00:28:12that fly behind it already change their
00:28:16course. The commander of the mobile fire group with the call sign "Luma"
00:28:19says that their work is not limited to shooting at flying
00:28:23targets, it is a whole system of interaction between many
00:28:27departments. We are in contact with other
00:28:29units from... from higher
00:28:33echelons, middle echelons, with short-range radio action, that is
00:28:37it's a whole such, let's call it perhaps,
00:28:40interdepartmental coalition that works
00:28:44to suppress enemy drones, that is, it's in
00:28:47this, in this group,
00:28:50the Ministry of Defense, and volunteer detachments,
00:28:53police, and Rosgvardia, and even the Ministry of Emergency Situations, yes,
00:28:56the work of the shooters itself, says Luma, requires special
00:28:59attention and understanding, we don't shoot. there
00:29:02wherever, that is, we are always in positions, when we arrive, we
00:29:05know where we can shoot, where we can't shoot, where
00:29:09it is desirable for the drone to fall, that is, we always take all these moments into account, that is,
00:29:12local residents,
00:29:14infrastructure.
00:29:23Everyone who is not currently on a combat mission practices
00:29:27shooting skills at the training ground, day and night, from ordinary
00:29:30soldiers to commanders. Training
00:29:33of assault groups and mobile fire groups, right now we
00:29:36are specifically training a mobile fire group, this is a flying object, now here it
00:29:40is small, but the smaller it is, the better they hit, the more they hit
00:29:44a large one, they shoot preemptively somehow else, so there is
00:29:47a difference, but it is minimal, in fact, well, in fact, we train everyone
00:29:51so that everyone can even be interchangeable, today he is
00:29:55an assault trooper, tomorrow he is in a mobile fire group. Simulators are assembled
00:29:58mostly by hand, under combat mission conditions. As
00:30:02aerial targets, both professional
00:30:05stands and very unexpected
00:30:08solutions are used. Launching real FPV drones for training,
00:30:12of course, would be quite an expensive pleasure, so
00:30:15here are the instructors from the SeverV brigade
00:30:19use these, well, you could say toys, a small radio-controlled
00:30:23airplane, quite in flight
00:30:25imitates an FPV drone, it's quite
00:30:29difficult to hit it, but nevertheless this is being practiced...
00:30:32breakthroughs, and no matter how hard the enemy tries, they constantly change
00:30:36the tactics of using attack drones, mobile fire groups
00:30:39of the volunteer corps 24/7,
00:30:42are ready to repel
00:30:44raids.
00:30:47In the moment, in motion, in combat work, we see new outlines of the front
00:30:51line in their reports. Our war correspondents
00:30:54report from all directions
00:30:55of the special operation.