Drone footage recorded by a resident of Kherson reveals a extremely distinctive and uncommon glimpse on shut fight between components of two skilled armies.
The video was filmed on February twenty fourth throughout clashes on the Antonovsky Bridge within the battle for Kherson.
With out context the scenes present a piece of Mechanized Armored Automobiles together with 2 BRDM-2’s and various about 12-16 mounted Infantry coning from the north to examine the stays of a disabled artillery convoy within the south. What they have no idea is that about 3 Squads of enemy Infantry so a complete of 20-30+ troopers is already ready for them west of the street to provoke an ambush from shut vary.
Now some context to the footage.
This was recorded in Kherson on twenty fourth of February.
Throughout that point Russian forces superior from the south over the bridge whereas the Ukrainians defended the north.
The 2 BRDMs have been in reality Ukrainian whereas the attackers on the berm have been Russian troopers.
After matching the realm with actual time map pictures we have been in a position to find the precise location of this battle.
We additionally matched the army eqipment seen on this video with “comfirmed” losses on each aspect in the course of the warfare.
Throughout our analysis we discovered that until now no Russian operated BRDM loss was listed there however underneath Ukrainian losses there have been BRDM-2s and 5 of those have been misplaced in Kherson.
So we discovered that this in reality needed to be Ukrainian BRDM-2’s.
Now we tried to establish the dissable convoy. On the primary look it appeared just like the convoy will need to have been Russian given the truth that its location matched the course of the frontline throughout that point with Russian forces advancing over the bridge. Nevertheless just a few observations allow us to suppose twice about this.
The automobiles haven’t any markings. Practically all of Russian automobiles are marked with letters. Whereas we don’t suppose that they actually mark each car (SF operations for instance) this common convoy ought to have been marked. That was not the case. Nevertheless it might have been that the markings simply weren’t seen from the angle of the drone cam so we digged a bit deeper.
Once more we appeared up confirmed car losses on each side. Russia solely had a few D-30 howitzers listed however not one of the photos to substantiate the losses have been taken in Kherson. So we took a have a look at Ukrainian aspect and actually there have been a few howitzer listed. Below them have been two Ukrainian 12mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers. After wanting on the photos from them we have been actually surprised to see that the pics in reality confirmed the identical artillery in the identical places as on this video. Additionally on the photographs you can clearly see no markings on any of the car. That led to the conclusion that the convoy was in reality a Ukrainian convoy.
This helped us to return to following conclusion:
A piece of two Ukrainian BRDM-2’s with two squads of 12-16 extra infantry was despatched to the south from the north to examine the stays of a destroyed Ukrainian artillery convoy. It’s attainable that they have been despatched in to scout for enemy presence and to search for survivors. What they didn’t knew after they have been midway at their AO was that about 3 Russianb squads with 20-30+ troopers arrange positions west of them on and behind a berm. When the Russians noticed them coming shut they began to interact them with small arms hearth and grenades because it appeared they lacket anti-tank weapons. It may very well be that they already used them up on the convoy earlier than. The Ukrainian troopers on the BRDMs dismounted and hit the ditch proper subsequent to to them. A couple of additionally took cowl behind the poles on the street however bought engaged by grenades. All in all of the entrance BRDM and its males have been hit more durable by the ambush. They unfold out a lot additional than the lads from the second BRDM and it appeared they wanted for much longer time to evacuate. The second BRDM began a retreat whereas the primary one remained on the scene when the video ends. It very seemingly that these two BRDMs have been later destroyed on that street as the photographs of misplaced Ukrainian BRDM present. There are not any different experiences about confirmed losses throughout that battle in terms of males. No Russian or Ukrainian numbers from this specific conflict have been launched.
The hyperlink to the location monitoring the losses: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
Video by Ivan Klimchenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmd4D3rghY
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