Dramatic footage of the assault of the Ukrainian military unit on the territory occupied by Russia appeared on social networks on Thursday evening.

Dramatic struggle – Ukrainian offensivePhoto: video shooting

The footage shows a Ukrainian unit with an American Humvee armored vehicle approaching at speed and opening fire on houses where a group of Russian soldiers is said to be.

The filmed firefight is intense, with first-person footage showing a soldier in the turret of an armored car firing a machine gun and even launching grenades from an AT4 model launcher.

Another video shows a soldier in a tower loading a machine gun with new bullets and firing aimlessly at a house where the Russians are allegedly hiding. There are other shots in the video, including the launch of a projectile from a house occupied by the Russians.

In other footage, taken from the car, the assault of the Ukrainians and the approach to the buildings captured by the Russians, including the shelling of the Russian positions, can be seen from a different angle.

The huge advance of Ukrainian troops / What victories they achieved in the counteroffensive

Ukraine recaptured more than 700 square kilometers of territory in the east and south during a lightning counteroffensive, a Ukrainian general said Thursday, giving the first official assessment of the operation.

These victories, if confirmed and sustained, would be a major blow to Russia, which Western intelligence says has suffered huge losses. It will also be a major boost for Kyiv, which is eager to show its Western partners that it can make a difference on the ground through force and that it deserves continued support.

Some of the biggest victories appear to have been achieved this week during a surprise Ukrainian counteroffensive in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

At a briefing, Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov said that during the ongoing operation, Ukrainian troops pushed back the occupiers by 50 km and recaptured more than 20 villages of the Kharkiv region.

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