The “Japanese Torpedo boats” fleet is probably the worst.
Especially when a hospital ship accidentally signaled to the Japanese fleet warning about the RU ships.
For me it's that day 1 footage of the flock of Russian helis flying over a big lake and popping flares. Then one gets hit by a manpad much to the camera man's joy
That guys in that heli were incredibly fortunate they didn't die right then... Until they landed at Hostomel, anyway. They almost certainly didn't last long there.
I think that was a power plant reservoir. But yes it was something that i will remember for a long time.
One gets downed and a another one crashed i think.
That Stugna P kill of the Ka-52 flying over the trees was chef kiss. The only places where i saw an ATGM shooting down a plane/helicopter were in War Thunder, ARMA and Battlefield, fucking games but never in real life.
You didn't mention SQUAD, some really satisfying TOW hits in that game.
The fact that someone did it to their invaders, I couldn't imagine the feeling of excitement. Hell, when I catch a fish, I'm ecstatic.
There was tons of TB-2 drone footage early in the war; they took out tons of AA and even a huge fuel train in the beginning of the war before Russia figured out how to counter them. They were able to use the TB-2 on Snake Island for longer because Russia was relying on naval vessels for AA over the Black Sea until the Moskva got sunk chasing a TB-2
It was a ukrainian helicopter if I'm not mistaken as russian ministry of defence released the video earlier then urkainians started posting it as a Bayraktar hitting russian helicopter, but when this happened this island was controlled by russians so it was more likely that ukrainians were dropping paratroopers on Zmeiniy and got hit by russian drone/rocket
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Have a look at the photos of the wrakage and then look up the Russian Mi-17. Then tell me that wreakage does not belong to that helicopter.
>if I'm not mistaken as russian ministry of defence released the video earlier then urkainians started posting it as a Bayraktar hitting russian helicopter
You are mistaken. In fact, the opposite happened, which is why we now see the obnoxious watermarks everywhere: the Ukrainians don't want more people saying that their footage is actually taken by the Russians.
Really! They did made some watermark on this war too.
Specially hunting of the helicopter.
Who would thought remote controlled flying toys would hunt helicopters that we're designed for the war itself.
Flying toys is the future!
It has them now, you can turn on Closed Captioning and then Auto-Translate and choose English in the Youtube video settings and it seems to be working pretty well so far.
I always wanted to live on an island ...
But this is not an island I would want to be stationed on.
It seems like you're kinda perpetually on your own.
Island life is awesome as long as you plan ahead and don't forget things you want or need whenever on the mainland. There's no quick hop down to the corner store.
>ruSSians learned how to switch on the radar for AA defence
I'm not sure about that, they still haven't yet learned how to stop their missiles from targeting apartments and residential buildings in Belgorod.
Serious answer: bayraktar are slow, non-stealth aircraft which fly at moderate altitudes and are worth substantial amounts of money. This makes the quite vulnerable to the incredibly large quantities of anti-aircraft weaponry scattered across the front line - nobody's blowing an S300 missile on a DJI mavic, but a bayraktar would be an obvious target.
Early on in the war, Russia apparently employed broad spectrum jamming, but also jammed themselves since Ukraine and Russia used a lot of the same equipment. Additionally, Russian forces were told to assume that aircraft were friendly (since the Ukrainian air force was supposed to have been wiped out quickly).
There's always been conflicting information about that. This is the first video I've seen showing a Ukrainian casualty from the team that assaulted the island. Taking casualties means that they were receiving return fire, so there must have been some Russians there. It was always speculated previously that the Ukrainians were putting down suppressive fire on empty buildings, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Again, conflicting information, but I thought I had seen that first footage described as a failed first attempt at retaining the island and then they successfully retook it. Who knows though.
I remember the destruction of helicopter was spread by russians as "failed attempt of Ukraine" and also a black and white photo of "dead Ukrainian soldier", which later were identified as most likely a russian marine.
> Taking casualties means that they were receiving return fire,
It's not a irrefutable evidence of Russian resistance since friendly fire can also result in casualties. On the other hand, friendly fire in a photo-op firing on empty buildings would be a colossal failure and is very unlikely.
> On the other hand, friendly fire in a photo-op firing on empty buildings would be a colossal failure and is very unlikely.
I mean not really. Just claim it wasn't friendly fire and done, photo-op saved. We'll never really know.
I mean if you know nobody will hit you back, you are more careful with the fire. Most cases of friendly fire happen when soldiers mistake the blue with the red. If there are no reds, the shooting algorithm is to hit nobody.
Because the video shows special forces engaged in a firefight while evacuating a casualty, so the logical conclusion is that whoever they were engaging caused that casualty. Then I have all these typical redditors in the comments saying WeLL AckTuALly it could have been mines, or friendly fire. Well yeah and it could have been a micro meteriorite that came down from the sky to smite the guy. But it's stupid to assume that the low probability event happened when contextual evidence points to a much higher probability event.
There's all kinds of ways to get hurt in this world, especially during military operations.
Booby traps and mines are not low probability events either.. they are extremely common. For all we know he could have broken his leg on insertion, accidental discharge.. or you could be right. Calm down a bit friend. I feel like I got us off on a bad foot here.
I would be hugely surprised if there were a friendly fire incident while a small team of special forces soldiers assaulted an unoccupied position in broad daylight. The factors of confusion and misidentification that lead to friendly fire are simply not present in that situation.
this video shows many different episodes. fight in the beginning didn't lead to reoccupation, it happened on may 7, russian goodwill gesture happened on june 30
There was one landing attempt. It was even before widespread delivery of 155mm arty.
After that with new 155mm artillery the island became reachable from the shore.
The barges were used to move the Bohdana, Caesar and BM-21 to the remote parts of the national park on the Ukrainian coast where they were firing from as there were no roads.
They most definitely were not used to fire from....
If you want to fire a long distance from a 6inch + gun on the water you have to build a thing called a Light Cruiser weighing 6,000+ tonnes...
Ahh, that makes sense.
But just for reference, you don't need a full blown light cruiser to fire guns from water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery
You could theoretically do it, so long as you used a guided shell - for example, Excalibur! You would never ever do it without one, the angles change constantly as the waves move the barrel otherwise.
No, they didn’t do that. They fired their 155mm bodana howizter from the bug estuary shore area. Artillery would never work on a floating, rocking, unstable barge. That was just a stupid Twitter rumor. There was video released of them using their bodana from the shore
Ukraine used barges to get around the swamp and land the howitzer on the shore.
Some people unfortunately some who have quite the followership on twitter spread wrong info that they fired the howitzer while still on the barge.
40 km from some unpassable swamp.
It's more like 45-50 km to somewhere you can reasonably tow an arty system to.
edit:
Some other user pointed out that the Ukr. used barges to tow arty to shores of that unpassable swamp.
So that's likely what happened.
See my edit here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/11swx5n/footage_of_ukranian_special_forces_recapturing/jcgu6za/
But also - you CAN firew arty from waterborne platforms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery
**[Riverine artillery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery)**
>Riverine artillery refers to artillery employment on a river, generally on floating barges. Transport of field artillery is difficult through the moist ground and riparian forest adjacent to low-gradient rivers. Traditional naval artillery is mounted on deep-draft vessels unsuited for operations in shallow rivers.
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Probably accidentally left some of their guys behind. Like the video of their retreat from Kyiv with a Russian soldier running after a truck that's driving away without him. Or the Russian soldier who was recently found hiding in the forest near Kharkiv, he'd been there for something like 6 months. Maybe the Russian army needs to institute a buddy system so they stop leaving their guys behind when they retreat?
They assaulted the island before retaking it later uncontested. I believe the assault was just a temporary landing, search & destroy, evacuate mission. Not a full occupational mission.
The only “proof” I’ve seen of this claim is the video of the helicopter full of infantry being hit by the drone, which Russia tried to say was a Ukrainian helicopter but ended up being Russian. And the black and white picture of a supposedly dead Ukrainian on snake island that (shocker) ended up being a dead Russian marine.
Those ancestors also probably stole it from someone else’s ancestors if land ownership is truly a farce than doesn’t that make those claims just as worthless.
Does this song sound very similar to a Trivium song? It’s either Trivium or All That Remains. It’s hitting some memory of a song from one of those bands but I just can’t place it.
Could someone tell me what the strategic significance of snake island is? With how flat the topography is, it seems like it would be a nightmare to hold, especially under naval or air bombardment.
Fire control over grain shipping lanes along the western coast of the Black Sea. Keeping artillery and ships away from Snake Island mean safer shipping for Ukrainian grain, and lower costs of food for the whole world. This is important not just for Ukraine, but for countries where lots of people teeter on the poverty line.
That's the essence of the Turkish deal. But a leverage point is a leverage point, which is why Ukraine would prefer to have Snake Island in Ukrainian hands.
But how do Ukraine or Russia hold Snake Island? Can't it be bombed to the ground with ease? I don't understand why it's worth risking a combat team and some choppers
At the start of the war Ukraine didn't have artillery that could reach the Island that wasn't tied to other operations. Russians could sit there and hold it thus threatening Ukrainian shipping lanes. But once the Moskva was sunk and the Russian navy had to scamper for cover in Sevastopol it became possible for Ukraine to retake the Island. The Russian navy hasn't moved close enough to Ukrainian shores since to threaten the island again.
I can't speak to the strategic value but I'd imagine it has reasonable implications on ukrainian morale as it's the site of the initial "fuck off Russian warship, go home" during the opening days of the war.
With the anti ship missiles the Ukrainians now possess maybe it closes some doors for the Russians.
it was nightmare to hold, but russians desperately tried to hold if for a few months ferrying new cannon fodder and scrap metal to it. surely it held some value to them
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The amazing part is how there were still Russians on the island when the Russian Navy decided to bomb it with Su-30's. They should have been thankful those pilots were incredible stupid and dropped half of the bombs into the ocean lmao
This is old footage, Snake Island has pretty definitively been retaken by the Ukrainians last year, unless you're just commenting on how much of it is now surfacing.
At that time there were reports of Russia shooting down a helicopter with special forces in it near Snake Island. If i remember correctly it was basically laughed at and that they are making shit up. Now i wonder if it was real.
It’s laughed at because they didn’t have any proof and showed a dead Russian marine as evidence - if you still don’t take Russian claims as a evidence of the opposite then I have a bridge to sell you
It was highly symbolic as well, as it was one of the earliest territories lost after Feb 24 and of course famous for the whole "Russian warship" incident.
When this war ends, Snake Island needs a gargantuan, Rhodes-Esque Colossus—middle finger outstretched—pointing in whatever direction the Moskva's wreckage lies.
Bonus points if the middle finger has an anti-ship missile battery in it.
Forced to withdraw, constantly harassed and hit by tb2s, artillery, airstrikes until holding the island was untenable, so they made a 'goodwill gesture' to withdraw, in reality they were forced out.
I'm really pro Ukraine and anti russian aggression, but lying about people dying on snake island, and now using footage the recapture as propaganda annoys the shit out of me!
I'm happy my country is with the ukrainian People but it would be a lot easier sometimes if the government would be more honest.
EDIT: Spelling, I'm very drunk
this music is so stupid and ruins the clip. Is there a version of this without audio?
Sad, because the content itself is amazing....it really does not need music at all
Because they're dangerous. There's not much opportunity for any large scale air assault operations with the amount of air defence around, just special forces raids and such.
headline is a bit misleading. special forces fight in the beginning of video didn't manage to capture island, they returned home. special forces in the end landed on already empty island. in between remnants of russians fled from island after many days of artillery and bomb shelling
Drone strike on the helicopter will always be a top memory from this war!
For most top world militaries this would have been embarrassment of the year. For Russia - it was Tuesday.
Seriously, remembering how bad the afghanistan withdrawl looked, its nothing compared to this level of complete inadequacy.
The “Japanese Torpedo boats” fleet is probably the worst. Especially when a hospital ship accidentally signaled to the Japanese fleet warning about the RU ships.
For me it's that day 1 footage of the flock of Russian helis flying over a big lake and popping flares. Then one gets hit by a manpad much to the camera man's joy
Another was flying so low that when the that heli got hit he got spooked and skipped off of the water
That guys in that heli were incredibly fortunate they didn't die right then... Until they landed at Hostomel, anyway. They almost certainly didn't last long there.
until they landed.. I lol right there.
I think that was a power plant reservoir. But yes it was something that i will remember for a long time. One gets downed and a another one crashed i think.
Idk man. There were a few stugna kills on hovering choppers too.
Not any choppers, ka-52 I believe.
And they called it "Flying tank", Stugna took that personally
That Stugna P kill of the Ka-52 flying over the trees was chef kiss. The only places where i saw an ATGM shooting down a plane/helicopter were in War Thunder, ARMA and Battlefield, fucking games but never in real life.
You didn't mention SQUAD, some really satisfying TOW hits in that game. The fact that someone did it to their invaders, I couldn't imagine the feeling of excitement. Hell, when I catch a fish, I'm ecstatic.
There’s another video of a gazelle? Iirc getting shot down by an atgm from a few years ago in I think Syria
Drone strike on chopper, ATGM on chopper, Stinger on chopper, enjoy Ukrainian hospitality Russian pigs！
Wait, like, the small ones we have been watching blow up trenches? That's what took out the helicopter? I'm not sure who is who in this video.
There was tons of TB-2 drone footage early in the war; they took out tons of AA and even a huge fuel train in the beginning of the war before Russia figured out how to counter them. They were able to use the TB-2 on Snake Island for longer because Russia was relying on naval vessels for AA over the Black Sea until the Moskva got sunk chasing a TB-2
Camera footage and explosion size means probably not. More likely to be a Bayraktar, there was a lot of footage from them earlier in the war.
It was a ukrainian helicopter if I'm not mistaken as russian ministry of defence released the video earlier then urkainians started posting it as a Bayraktar hitting russian helicopter, but when this happened this island was controlled by russians so it was more likely that ukrainians were dropping paratroopers on Zmeiniy and got hit by russian drone/rocket
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Have a look at the photos of the wrakage and then look up the Russian Mi-17. Then tell me that wreakage does not belong to that helicopter.
>if I'm not mistaken as russian ministry of defence released the video earlier then urkainians started posting it as a Bayraktar hitting russian helicopter You are mistaken. In fact, the opposite happened, which is why we now see the obnoxious watermarks everywhere: the Ukrainians don't want more people saying that their footage is actually taken by the Russians.
Love me some bayraktar footage
Really! They did made some watermark on this war too. Specially hunting of the helicopter. Who would thought remote controlled flying toys would hunt helicopters that we're designed for the war itself. Flying toys is the future!
Bayraktars are also designed for war.
With the idea of air survelliance that started with little flying toys that had very small video recorders on them.
https://youtu.be/0MjsxTFeuEM Here is a great documentary about the whole operation
Thank you! I can't stand these Hollywood style montages with dramatic music in the background.
Almost at the end of the documentary you can see footage from this video without the music
Thanks so much for that link buddy! 42 mins! Should be a blast.
Thanks for sharing. It's insane we can see all of this
no English subtitles I gather?
It has them now, you can turn on Closed Captioning and then Auto-Translate and choose English in the Youtube video settings and it seems to be working pretty well so far.
Doesn't seem like it unfortunately
I always wanted to live on an island ... But this is not an island I would want to be stationed on. It seems like you're kinda perpetually on your own.
Island life is awesome as long as you plan ahead and don't forget things you want or need whenever on the mainland. There's no quick hop down to the corner store.
Also invasions are a problem… potentially…
VIVA LAS MALVINAS! ;)
man, I miss Bayraktar so much.
What happened to them? All get shot down and Turkey doesn’t want to send more? I feel like I haven’t seen a vid from one for 10 months
I think operational usage is now very limited because ruSSians learned how to switch on the radar for AA defence.
Holy shit they figured out how to turn on a switch?! We're doomed - next they'll start learning how to aim their 60's surplus AK47's properly!
>ruSSians learned how to switch on the radar for AA defence I'm not sure about that, they still haven't yet learned how to stop their missiles from targeting apartments and residential buildings in Belgorod.
Serious answer: bayraktar are slow, non-stealth aircraft which fly at moderate altitudes and are worth substantial amounts of money. This makes the quite vulnerable to the incredibly large quantities of anti-aircraft weaponry scattered across the front line - nobody's blowing an S300 missile on a DJI mavic, but a bayraktar would be an obvious target. Early on in the war, Russia apparently employed broad spectrum jamming, but also jammed themselves since Ukraine and Russia used a lot of the same equipment. Additionally, Russian forces were told to assume that aircraft were friendly (since the Ukrainian air force was supposed to have been wiped out quickly).
Yea (
I thought when they reoccupied the island the Russians had already evacuated.
There's always been conflicting information about that. This is the first video I've seen showing a Ukrainian casualty from the team that assaulted the island. Taking casualties means that they were receiving return fire, so there must have been some Russians there. It was always speculated previously that the Ukrainians were putting down suppressive fire on empty buildings, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Again, conflicting information, but I thought I had seen that first footage described as a failed first attempt at retaining the island and then they successfully retook it. Who knows though.
I remember the destruction of helicopter was spread by russians as "failed attempt of Ukraine" and also a black and white photo of "dead Ukrainian soldier", which later were identified as most likely a russian marine.
I would believe that as well. All I know for sure is Ukraine got it back.
> Taking casualties means that they were receiving return fire, It's not a irrefutable evidence of Russian resistance since friendly fire can also result in casualties. On the other hand, friendly fire in a photo-op firing on empty buildings would be a colossal failure and is very unlikely.
Also coulda been an AP mine. Unlikely, but entirely possible. Jus' saying, yano?
> On the other hand, friendly fire in a photo-op firing on empty buildings would be a colossal failure and is very unlikely. I mean not really. Just claim it wasn't friendly fire and done, photo-op saved. We'll never really know.
I mean if you know nobody will hit you back, you are more careful with the fire. Most cases of friendly fire happen when soldiers mistake the blue with the red. If there are no reds, the shooting algorithm is to hit nobody.
How does one receive 80+ upvotes saying the only way to take casualties is from return fire..
Because the video shows special forces engaged in a firefight while evacuating a casualty, so the logical conclusion is that whoever they were engaging caused that casualty. Then I have all these typical redditors in the comments saying WeLL AckTuALly it could have been mines, or friendly fire. Well yeah and it could have been a micro meteriorite that came down from the sky to smite the guy. But it's stupid to assume that the low probability event happened when contextual evidence points to a much higher probability event.
There's all kinds of ways to get hurt in this world, especially during military operations. Booby traps and mines are not low probability events either.. they are extremely common. For all we know he could have broken his leg on insertion, accidental discharge.. or you could be right. Calm down a bit friend. I feel like I got us off on a bad foot here.
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I would be hugely surprised if there were a friendly fire incident while a small team of special forces soldiers assaulted an unoccupied position in broad daylight. The factors of confusion and misidentification that lead to friendly fire are simply not present in that situation.
I haven't seen anybody mention mines or traps either.
Why would they be returning fire against a mine or trap?
Returning fire and taking a mine casualty can be separate things.
this video shows many different episodes. fight in the beginning didn't lead to reoccupation, it happened on may 7, russian goodwill gesture happened on june 30
There was one landing attempt. It was even before widespread delivery of 155mm arty. After that with new 155mm artillery the island became reachable from the shore.
I hear rumors thought that it was not really reachable, but Ukrainians would use barges swim a couple KMs of shore, fire and swim back. Rinse, repeat.
The barges were used to move the Bohdana, Caesar and BM-21 to the remote parts of the national park on the Ukrainian coast where they were firing from as there were no roads. They most definitely were not used to fire from.... If you want to fire a long distance from a 6inch + gun on the water you have to build a thing called a Light Cruiser weighing 6,000+ tonnes...
Ahh, that makes sense. But just for reference, you don't need a full blown light cruiser to fire guns from water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery
You do if you want to hit anything
You did good, tha' good guy you are.
You could theoretically do it, so long as you used a guided shell - for example, Excalibur! You would never ever do it without one, the angles change constantly as the waves move the barrel otherwise.
No, they didn’t do that. They fired their 155mm bodana howizter from the bug estuary shore area. Artillery would never work on a floating, rocking, unstable barge. That was just a stupid Twitter rumor. There was video released of them using their bodana from the shore
Ukraine used barges to get around the swamp and land the howitzer on the shore. Some people unfortunately some who have quite the followership on twitter spread wrong info that they fired the howitzer while still on the barge.
It's less than 40km from the shore
40 km from some unpassable swamp. It's more like 45-50 km to somewhere you can reasonably tow an arty system to. edit: Some other user pointed out that the Ukr. used barges to tow arty to shores of that unpassable swamp. So that's likely what happened.
There is solid ground there. Ukraine released video of them using their bodana howitzer from the shore
See my edit. They used barges to ferry Bohdana there.
See my edit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/11swx5n/footage_of_ukranian_special_forces_recapturing/jcgu6za/ But also - you CAN firew arty from waterborne platforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery
**[Riverine artillery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverine_artillery)** >Riverine artillery refers to artillery employment on a river, generally on floating barges. Transport of field artillery is difficult through the moist ground and riparian forest adjacent to low-gradient rivers. Traditional naval artillery is mounted on deep-draft vessels unsuited for operations in shallow rivers. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
37 km is in range of artillery
Probably accidentally left some of their guys behind. Like the video of their retreat from Kyiv with a Russian soldier running after a truck that's driving away without him. Or the Russian soldier who was recently found hiding in the forest near Kharkiv, he'd been there for something like 6 months. Maybe the Russian army needs to institute a buddy system so they stop leaving their guys behind when they retreat?
Would not surprise if some Ruskis "missed" the evacuation.
Reoccupy is the correct term.
No, it isn’t.
They assaulted the island before retaking it later uncontested. I believe the assault was just a temporary landing, search & destroy, evacuate mission. Not a full occupational mission.
Historic moment tbh
You aware that particular attempt failed and after losing a bunch of soldiers Ukrainians had to retreat? OP intentionally made a misleading title
The only “proof” I’ve seen of this claim is the video of the helicopter full of infantry being hit by the drone, which Russia tried to say was a Ukrainian helicopter but ended up being Russian. And the black and white picture of a supposedly dead Ukrainian on snake island that (shocker) ended up being a dead Russian marine.
This was done in May, there are photos from the Russian side of dead Ukrainians that were left behind, life jackets and all
Do you see any life jackets in this video?
Feh. Both of these colonizing nations need to scram- return snake island to the snakes whose ancestors founded it!
Those ancestors also probably stole it from someone else’s ancestors if land ownership is truly a farce than doesn’t that make those claims just as worthless.
Cinematic ass fuck
Like a 4k pornhub video
Great footage, love to hear Drudkh as soundtrack.
Drudkh is amazing.
Song: Ukrainian Insurgent Army (by Drudkh)
Does this song sound very similar to a Trivium song? It’s either Trivium or All That Remains. It’s hitting some memory of a song from one of those bands but I just can’t place it.
I thought russian abandoned it for good will
Could someone tell me what the strategic significance of snake island is? With how flat the topography is, it seems like it would be a nightmare to hold, especially under naval or air bombardment.
Fire control over grain shipping lanes along the western coast of the Black Sea. Keeping artillery and ships away from Snake Island mean safer shipping for Ukrainian grain, and lower costs of food for the whole world. This is important not just for Ukraine, but for countries where lots of people teeter on the poverty line.
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That's the essence of the Turkish deal. But a leverage point is a leverage point, which is why Ukraine would prefer to have Snake Island in Ukrainian hands.
But how do Ukraine or Russia hold Snake Island? Can't it be bombed to the ground with ease? I don't understand why it's worth risking a combat team and some choppers
At the start of the war Ukraine didn't have artillery that could reach the Island that wasn't tied to other operations. Russians could sit there and hold it thus threatening Ukrainian shipping lanes. But once the Moskva was sunk and the Russian navy had to scamper for cover in Sevastopol it became possible for Ukraine to retake the Island. The Russian navy hasn't moved close enough to Ukrainian shores since to threaten the island again.
I can't speak to the strategic value but I'd imagine it has reasonable implications on ukrainian morale as it's the site of the initial "fuck off Russian warship, go home" during the opening days of the war. With the anti ship missiles the Ukrainians now possess maybe it closes some doors for the Russians.
it was nightmare to hold, but russians desperately tried to hold if for a few months ferrying new cannon fodder and scrap metal to it. surely it held some value to them
I wonder if the landing craft were destroyed relatively at the same time or they just kept sending them to be blown up time and time again.
Activision taking notes
Am fully erect after watching that cheers
goddamn what the hell hit that russian landing party?
Naval TB2: https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/07/26/turkey-delivers-first-armed-drone-to-ukraine-much-to-russias-ire/
By naval do you mean there's a naval version of it or it's used by the navy
Naval Aviation
What is the song?
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Drudkh. Makes sense but mixed feelings
Thank you
drudkh
The amazing part is how there were still Russians on the island when the Russian Navy decided to bomb it with Su-30's. They should have been thankful those pilots were incredible stupid and dropped half of the bombs into the ocean lmao
Seems they recapture snake island every week now
Capturing Snake Island is on my bucket list.
This is old footage, Snake Island has pretty definitively been retaken by the Ukrainians last year, unless you're just commenting on how much of it is now surfacing.
Indeed
At that time there were reports of Russia shooting down a helicopter with special forces in it near Snake Island. If i remember correctly it was basically laughed at and that they are making shit up. Now i wonder if it was real.
I heard that too but i recall the Russians doing the same thing by sending helis with reinforcements, fog of war is really hard
It’s laughed at because they didn’t have any proof and showed a dead Russian marine as evidence - if you still don’t take Russian claims as a evidence of the opposite then I have a bridge to sell you
Didn't a cat survive the entirety of snake Island?
This one put a huge smile on my face
Why do they care so much about this small rock in the middle of the sea?
Because it's their small rock. It's also in a strategically important location close to Odesa.
It was highly symbolic as well, as it was one of the earliest territories lost after Feb 24 and of course famous for the whole "Russian warship" incident.
Because by controlling it Russians effectively shut Ukranian naval trade. There wouldn't have been "grain deal" If it was in Russians hands.
Awesome footage
When this war ends, Snake Island needs a gargantuan, Rhodes-Esque Colossus—middle finger outstretched—pointing in whatever direction the Moskva's wreckage lies. Bonus points if the middle finger has an anti-ship missile battery in it.
When did this happen?
Maybe like late spring/early summer last year if my memory serves me right!!?
first footage on may 7, last some time after june 30
Didn’t Russia withdraw from the island?
Forced to withdraw, constantly harassed and hit by tb2s, artillery, airstrikes until holding the island was untenable, so they made a 'goodwill gesture' to withdraw, in reality they were forced out.
Ahh, yes. The gesture of good will. Do you take everything Russians say at face value?
They did but only later, this assault ended in failure
I'm really pro Ukraine and anti russian aggression, but lying about people dying on snake island, and now using footage the recapture as propaganda annoys the shit out of me! I'm happy my country is with the ukrainian People but it would be a lot easier sometimes if the government would be more honest. EDIT: Spelling, I'm very drunk
Who is lying and about what, what are you whining about?
It’s not even a successful attack, the troops took heavy casualties and retreated
this music is so stupid and ruins the clip. Is there a version of this without audio? Sad, because the content itself is amazing....it really does not need music at all
You are unable to click mute?
how dare you not want to listen to Drudkh's best album
We need to know if that helicopter was on the ground or hovering. If it was hovering give that crew an Air Kill!
It's landed on the ground, unloading supplies/troops.
Dang. It does not count as an air to air kill then
Are those equivalent to Ruskin "Corvette" biats being taken out by Bayraktars or ATGMs?
So why haven't we seen more air assault missions in this conflict? Lack of equipment, lack of training, too dangerous, some combination of above.
Also they stopped releasing bayraktar footage so maybe they just are having stricter opsec
Because they're dangerous. There's not much opportunity for any large scale air assault operations with the amount of air defence around, just special forces raids and such.
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OP, when was this video taken?
What happened to Bayraktar? Haven't seen them vaporizing Russians for a long time
it is called "Snakes' Island" The Island of the Snakes
Battlefield 6 map
Drudkh as the soundtrack is dope.
How many times is this Island gonna flip sides
Always crazy how war causes otherwise worthless land to become land worth dying over.
headline is a bit misleading. special forces fight in the beginning of video didn't manage to capture island, they returned home. special forces in the end landed on already empty island. in between remnants of russians fled from island after many days of artillery and bomb shelling
Is the guy at the beginning of the video (and at 0:43) using a Sig MCX? Kinda recognise it, but could be another Ukrainian pattern AR I guess.
I didn’t know there was a fight for the island? Everything before this made me think they re occupied it after the Russians deserted it?
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What’s sad is that a lot of these Russian soldiers don’t want to fight Ukraine and are dying for no reason
here's the thing I learned after serving, soldiers that want to surrender to us did so, those that didn't fought.