A new video has surfaced on social media that captured intense fighting in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, showing Ukrainian troops firing at Russian troops after inspecting an abandoned vehicle.

On the footage, taken by the reconnaissance group of the Ukrainian army, you can see how the Kyiv military examines a KamAZ-5350 military truck with a gun mounted on a trailer.

Around the 28th mark, the soldier appears to sense danger, although it is unclear from the recording whether he sees something or hears gunfire in the distance.

The Ukrainian military began to move quickly towards the Humvee military vehicle, which, after sitting in it, tried to reverse. But just a few seconds after that, the American-made machine comes under attack from the Russians, and Ukrainian soldiers quickly disembark from it to take up defensive positions at the edge of the forest.

The footage also shows that it was at least a dubious decision from a military point of view by the Ukrainian military, who left the Humvee in the middle of the road when they went down to inspect the military truck abandoned by the Russians.

Lightning attack of Ukrainians on Kherson

Launched on August 29, the Ukrainian offensive in this region in the south of their country has gained momentum in recent days after more than a month of heavy fighting and intensive bombardment of Russian army positions and logistical points.

On Monday, Reuters reported that Ukrainian troops had made the biggest breakthrough to Kherson in the south of the country so far since the start of the war, breaking through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River.

Ukraine’s armed forces have already destroyed the main bridges across the Dnipro, forcing Russian forces to use improvised crossings. A significant advance along the river could bring these passages within range of artillery.

Russian military bloggers talked about the advance of Ukrainian tanks on tens of kilometers of territory along the banks of the Dnieper.

The most prominent official of the Russian occupation authorities in Kherson on Monday shared a video showing him in the background of the Antonivsky Bridge, showing that he had not fled the region and asking people not to panic, although he acknowledged that the Ukrainians had broken through the front line.

Although Kyiv remains almost completely silent, as it has been during major offensives in the past, some Ukrainian officials have mentioned unconfirmed reports of Ukrainian advances.

In its latest assessment of the development of hostilities in Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War notes that two elite units of the Russian army have failed to hold the front here, which is probably the result of their degradation and deformation by mercenaries. .

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