Chilling footage shows the moment Ukrainian forces ambushed a column of Russian tanks, deploying a lethal combination of missiles, armored drones, land mines and machine guns to annihilate the enemy.
Members of the Ukrainian 30th Mechanized Brigade were recently lying in wait near the village of Synkivka, about 5 miles northwest of the strategically important town of Kupyansk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, when two Russian tanks from the main battle line and two armored personnel carriers headed straight for their trap.
Drone footage shared by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry on of previous failed offensives in the area.
A column of Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers fell into a Ukrainian ambush in the Kharkiv region last month. 30th Mechanized Brigade Two tanks and two armored vehicles were wiped out around December 28 while on their way to try to capture a settlement. 30th Mechanized Brigade
As the leading Russian tank moves through a thicket of bare trees lining the road, it is hit by a Ukrainian anti-tank missile and explodes in a fireball, sending clouds of thick black smoke billowing into the air.
The remaining Russian vehicles in the doomed column attempt to retreat, but the Ukrainians quickly cut off their retreat by attacking the rear armored personnel carrier with an armed drone.
As smoke billows from the disabled vehicle, Russian troops emerge from inside and flee toward the tree line.
The column was attacked as it passed a group of trees on the road to Kupyansk. 30th Mechanized Brigade A Ukrainian missile hit the lead tank, causing it to explode in a fireball. Russian troops from the 30th Mechanized Brigade jumped out of the bombed tank and ran into the trees. 30th Mechanized Brigade
The two still intact vehicles, abandoned as sitting ducks in the exposed no man’s land, desperately try to escape the ambush, but in their hasty escape they run over land mines and burst into flames.
The Ukrainians then deployed cluster munitions against the decimated column, sending Moscow’s soldiers fleeing for their lives. It was not immediately clear from the video how many fighters were killed or wounded.
“A typical day for Russian occupiers in Ukraine,” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry gloated in an X post accompanying the images, which were set to a humorous Italian song and gibberish from a 1981 Soviet cartoon.
The second and third vehicles of the convoy tried to escape the ambush but ran over mines. 30th Mechanized Brigade A group of Russian troops jumped out of the destroyed vehicles and ran for their lives. 30th Mechanized Brigade
The open source intelligence channel Tender described what happened near Kupyansk as “absolute carnage.”
Russia is said to have deployed at least seven columns of tanks and armored personnel carriers to try to capture the settlement of Synkivka between December 14 and 28, each of which was systematically annihilated by Kiev forces, it previously reported. Forbes.
For Moscow, the goal is to move a little closer to the city of Kupyanks and solidify its advances in the Luhansk region, much of which is already under Moscow control, and seize more territory in the Kharkiv region.
It was Russia’s seventh known failed attempt to seize the Synkivka agreement. 30th Mechanized Brigade
Russia has been making gradual advances on some sections of the front line, but has so far failed to break through Ukraine’s defenses.
Likewise, kyiv forces have struggled to liberate large swathes of enemy-occupied land following a disappointing spring counteroffensive.
As a result, the conflict has largely stalled during the winter months. Questions remain about whether Ukraine will be able to defend itself against Russia if US Republicans in Congress continue to block a new military and financial aid package proposed by Democrats.
Russian units continued to attack sectors north of Kupyansk on Sunday, but failed to advance, the Institute for Study think tank reported in its latest update.
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