A new video shared on social media shows how Ukrainian military personnel throw all their weapons into battle during an attack on an armored column of the Russian army in the Donetsk region.

Strikes by Ukrainians against the invasion forces in DonetskPhoto: video shooting

The excellent video footage shows how two Russian T-72B3 tanks and three BMP-2 tanks were damaged as a result of hitting mines and defeating the artillery and anti-tank installations of the 72nd OMBr of Kyiv.

The shelling took place near the city of Pavlivka in the Donetsk region, which is in the southwest of the region, far from the fighting around the city of Bakhmut, where the Russian army continues its only large-scale offensive so far. attempt in Ukraine.

But in recent days, fierce battles have been going on around the village of Pavlivka, as evidenced by other videos that have appeared on social networks.

A Russian marine unit was destroyed in Donetsk

It is not entirely clear what the Russian troops are trying to achieve with offensive actions here, one of the possibilities is that they are being used to withdraw part of the Ukrainian forces from the area of ​​the strategic city of Bakhmut in the northeast of the Donetsk region. .

But several Russian military bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers talk about heavy casualties in the attacks, some of them claiming that two Marine brigades, the 155th Brigade and the 40th Brigade, suffered more casualties than both Chechen wars combined.

According to information shared on Russian social networks, in just 4 days of fighting, the 155th Marine Brigade of Russia would have suffered 300 casualties, which is a huge number for any unit, let alone an elite one.

A letter attributed to the unit’s servicemen has been widely circulated on Russian social media, in which the local command is accused of sending troops on an “incomprehensible” offensive just to receive bonuses.

The marines also say they lost half of their combat vehicles during the attacks and are calling on the governor of the region where they come from to create an investigative commission independent of the Russian Defense Ministry.

They expressed distrust in him, saying that one of the two commanders in charge of the situation is personally protected by the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.

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