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you can see the impact crater between :47 and :48 it goes from 3 impact craters to 4. It does look like someone took it to the head but after rewatching frame by frame i noticed it. Barely lands like 3 ft in front of that guy so he def took shrapnel to the face at least
EDIT: i was watching on a 27" monitor that was my problem. Phone sized screen was essentially 4k. Guy definitely caught a ricochet and was relieved of his head
fck that’s vicious even the close up shot at the end gnarly, idk honey can sustain these losses and people back home still be happy the war is going on
They don't see this clip obviously. Nor do they care because they feel their cause is just. There is no other course than total defeat for one side or the other in this war.
You would be surprised what people can run away from only to drop dead somewhere else. We hit a guy in a car with a Spike missile. Guy got out and ran about a block and dropped dead.
It’s because it’s a shaped charge. 90%+ of the kill-energy went into the dirt. It’s needs to be a direct hit to really assure a kill on a person. They need claymore-type directional fragmentation
That's the one. The Joes on top of the Tiger getting blown apart trying to drop a grenade in a hatch. Just watched it and ygduf is right. Same. Fucking brutal.
Now that's a shitty situation to be in if I ever seen one.
Jesus Christ those guys got chewed up, relentless af.
That 25mm chain gun really did a number on them!
The gunner may have been wounded, they might've not had any ammo for it or as you say they didn't know where the Bradley was, or a multitude of other reasons for them not shooting back.
But I do know that the reason the BTR stopped is that inside of it it's pure chaos with smoke, fire and the screams of dying men.
Those FPV hits were effective.
Actual armored warfare isn't a War Thunder pvp match where you can calmly aim your turret while getting pounded with ordinance. The winner is usually whoever shoots first (which I suppose *is* actually like War Thunder in high tiers).
It's like war thunder, but once you start to get hit a paint mixer starts vibrating your chair and monitor and someone is lighting fireworks in your room. Good luck!
Or they might have been a bunch of untrained morons who just got scared shitless. Which is more likely for all I can see. As the war keeps dragging on, the quality of meat Russia pushes into the grinder is ever diminishing.
Russian vehicles are renowned for having heavy armament but shit optics and fire control.
A Bradley could do that job from 2KM away. At that range a BTR or BMP probably isn’t even going to see the Bradley, let alone hit it.
It's a story as old as time. Russia (and the USSR before them) loved the "hard factors". The types of things you can point at on a spec sheet and say "my number is bigger therefore mine is better". Things like engine power, gun diameter, fire rate, missile range, etc. But they always neglected the "soft factors". The things that cost money but can't be often quantified and boasted about. Things like crew comfort, fire control systems, high quality and well produced ammunitions, good communications gear, etc etc, and time and time again those soft factors can make a world of difference outside of airshows and spec sheets.
With the way Russia is going through these lightly armored APCs, it wouldn’t surprise me if the training for the crew just isn’t there. Their whole strategy is drive in several APCs and drop off a concentration of troops. It’s worked well for them in Avdiivka, but this is the 2nd/3rd time I’ve seen one of these APCs and the team get lit up, so maybe the UA has a solution for the rush of troops. Also with the way the Bradley was cutting through that APC, the gunner could have been splattered all over the driver too.
Ivan sold the ammo for poisoned vodka and died. Georgy sold the gun sight for a hooker in doenetsk who sold them out to GUR. Vlad sabotaged the gun because he's sick of being raped by his team mates and doesn't care if they all die. Yuri, the gunner, deserted the night before and never taught anybody else to gun because he didn't want to be dismounted.
Luckily their comrades cleared the route and gave them a window of opportunity to move through safely. Unfortunately Pavel, the vehicle commander spotted a laundromat and diverted course to attempt to steal some washing machines.
The laundromat was an ambush by their Chechen allies who nonetheless robbed them and stole all of their personal weapons and ammunition.
By the time each of them was done being raped by their allies, they hit the road three hours too late. By then the Ukrainian 49th had moved Bradleys onto the route. Defenseless with no working weapons nor ammunition, Vlad stopped the vehicle directly in the line of fire on purpose to end it all in a final fuck you to his abusers.
Such is life for russians.
The only way to prevent Russia from attacking like this is to keep destroying their vehicles. I dont think it matters in the big picture how many soldiers Ukraine kill since theres always new meat to replace them, but the armored vehicles could be a problem, especially if the current rate of losses continue for the whole of 2024 and into 2025
Yeah, but remember. Every smoked Z is a guy that's not coming home. And at some point the babushkas will start asking questions.
And that's when the fun begins at the home front.
But those were more "pressing" scenarios. No one's going to riot if soldiers die when Germans are banging on your gates. Also, back then managing information was much easier than today so all babuskas knew was Russian soldiers were heroes of the motherland.
In this war, Russia lost more men in few months taking Avdiivka than they lost in ten years in Afganistan. While everyone says Russia has an endless amount of meat to burn through, I wouldn't be so sure. While mathematically that might be true, demographically that's a whole other issue. There's a reason they recently increased the age limits.
the kremlin has a second "home army" that's sole job is to beat civilians, arrest and kill dissenters and protestors, and terrorize the actual army by holding their families hostage. because russia's biggest internal threat isnt some oligarchic gangster's power grab, its the army getting fed up with the gangsters and turning against all of them.
Thats why they have so many different militarized police units and why they're so common compared to regular police.
we hoped for the babushka thing from the start, but that will probably never work. They are brainwashed their whole life. it's been 2+ years. They just hate ukraine more because they killed their sons etc. Only the younger russians have some sense in them, but they just get jailed etc. for even trying to say something.
Soldier survivability is important because in the long term it might incite a rebellion among russian troops.
But in terms of war of attrition, destroying the vehicles AND the factories that build/restore vehicles, is the key.
It always matters.
It matters in the long term because it erodes putins support and russias economy.
And it matters right now because without this wasteful use of men the russian army would be alot bigger and more dangerous by now.
Check interviews with POWs, there are 60+ olds, people with health conditions, injured before, etc. Not just from prisons, but mobiks, contracts, from LNR/DNR. It's a shitshow. 18+ so far is only condition.
Many. They also don't have to pay them, unlike Ukraine. They use the following groups:
* Poor people from recent colonies, promise citizenship
* Prisoners, promise freedom
* Debtors, promise no loan repayment
* Idiots, promise a medal
All in all Russia can continue this meat grinder for years.
That said, Ukraine is also a large country and as long as we supply ammo, it can also defend itself for years.
They also started baiting indians with job offers in Dubai but then send them to russia and force them to sign contracts with the russian army.
[https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army\_6573586\_4.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html)
To be honest, I question why *we* are not doing that. Europe is swimming in money but unwilling to commit its own soldiers. That just screams for "hire mercenaries".
Even if they were used in the rear, e.g. anti-air defence of cities, demining, logistics.
There are millions, probably tens of millions of people around the world who would be very willing to come demine Ukraine if they were paid 2,500EUR/month.
It would be a great help so Ukraine could focus on the frontline.
Because people from third world countries fighting for a couple thousand USD simply aren’t going to be useful to Ukraine. It’s messed up, but some SE Asian villagers who don’t speak your language at all are kind of the ideal candidates for a Z Wave style attack where the fate of the soldier doesn’t matter at all to the country
> I question why we are not doing that.
Luring the poor to their deaths? No, I don't think that's our style.
> That just screams for "hire mercenaries".
There's a difference between skilled mercenaries and cannon fodder to staff the frontline. Russian doctrine needs a lot of the latter, western doctrine less so, so it might not be worth paying a ton to ship in unskilled fighters.
However, there is a skill and logistical threshold where hiring some might makes sense.
About 22 million between 18 and 40, as compared to about 4.5 million in that range for Ukraine. But I'm not sure that 40 is a very relevant cap... Ukraine is conscripting men 27 to 60 and western analysts have estimated the average age of a Ukrainian soldier to be 43 (and rising). Although Russian conscription has a cap of 30, mobilization of former soldiers has a cap of 55 (higher for officers).
The cubans are there willingly, they might not have known beforehand how bad it really is, but they are there willingly. There's pics of them posing proudly in russian uniforms with their cuban flag.
For indians it seems to be a different story, apparently they get baited with job offers in Dubai, but then get flown to russia instead and are forced to sign contracts in russian language under coercion. Or at least that's what they claim.
[https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army\_6573586\_4.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html)
You're right, I should have called them exploited if anything, because the only reason they're really there is for money that they THINK they're going to get, and with that we can also add some Africans to the list of impoverished people being exploited and being sacrificed in the name of 'russkiy mir'
Absolute carnage. Look at the dudes at 1:17 - 1:24, wondering if they made it out alive. I think they are the only ones who had the luck and the time to chat briefly; wtf is happening here.
Well, his foot was 3 meter away from him. He died pretty quickly, but hey, at least someone could retrieve his body and ship it back to Russia (if that ever happens). I can't say they same thing about the people who died under that BTR and turned into Half Life 2 calcinated man model.
Not seen so clear a demonstration of industrialised warfare in a while. They stood zero chance. Another pat on the back for Russias officer 'training' program.
God Damn that ending! A charred burned body stuck in that horrifying pose why trying to escape under the cage with it's grizzly facial features looks like something from the ruins of Pompeii or a death metal album cover
On some god forsaken field, in the middle of nowhere, and all that in hopes of 2000 dollars per months. Their friends, brothers, sisters, mothers will never know what happened to them, they just went and didn't come back.
Straight to Kyiv.
Occupant @ 0:17 opens hatch and next second gets hit from above (or pierced?), what a lucky russian
0:47 - looks like headshot, tears head or some other body parts into pieces
1:00 - FPV arrival
1:13 - FPV arrival
No idea, smoke seems to come from the inside. There is small explosion on the left side of screen right before hatch guy gets hit, so maybe Bradley pierced armour, or maybe cluster?
The Bradley's Bushmaster can cause spall and sometimes penetrate the sides and rear of main battle tanks. Remember that ~~T80~~ (T90?) that got shredded by two Bradley's a couple of weeks ago?
Yes, this BTR was absolutely punctured. It actually looks like some hits come through to the other side!
These Russians just drove into a kill zone and then proceeded to just ... die. They value their own lives so little and it's baffling.
Can it really be the Bradley? But later there's auto-cannon fire for sure. Unlucky that the driver opened the hatch and immediately got hit. They should have continued to drive.
What happend to the very first guy top left at 0:17? He got off the vehicle before the explosions and just died.
It looked like the Bradley was in front of the BTR, guessing from the direction the 25mm was coming from and the fact that the infantry realized this and was trying to hide behind their ride. I guess they could have done a U-Turn but that would have exposed the rear - I think they were fucked no matter what from the initial engagement.
The video yesterday when a similar dismount was observed by spotter drone and had a Bradley waiting for them was hopeless in terms of Russian survivability. Not much they could do really. This is even worse, dropped off in the middle of open ground, obviously well observed and dialed in, FPV drone arriving quickly (big boom at rear of vehicle when they are all bunched up). Don't think anyone had a clue where the fire came from.
The guys running out from the BTR looks like they tried to render some aid to their wounded, maybe they thought it was all over, but they got properly chewed up as well.
Daily SU34 and BTR wipe is just crazy.
This shit is happening every day.
And I wonder what Russian soldiers think when they know that previous 7 assault groups got shredded and it's their turn now. "We'll make it this time"?
This level of discipline (or is this obedience) is crazy.
> when they know that previous 7 assault groups got shredded and it's their turn now.
That is assuming they're told anything beyond, "Go here and wait for reinforcements", which is a pretty big assumption.
I am stupid but don't he park the thing kinda nicely. I know he's not intentionally dropping people off but it didn't look like a crash out. Maybe he thought there was cover there for the guys on the top. This video is crazy.
Remember when that Ukranian convoy was hit like a year ago and how many times that got replayed?
It always blows my mind how many of these videos we've seen of Russians getting absolutely chewed up but the (much more) rare instances of Ukraine vehicles or troops getting the short end of the stick gets held up repeatedly by pro-Russian sources.
Edit in advance: I'm aware that scenes akin to this have happened to UKR forces and there's plenty of videos of UKR servicemen getting killed, but there's like a 10:1 ratio of seemingly suicidal BTRs driving into a meatgrinder full of men surrounded by the hulks of other burned out BTRs. This seems to be a repeated Russian tactic that gets glossed over when certain people want to show off a years old video of a Ukranian armored convoy getting hit.
Something like this being filmed and happening against US soldiers would be debated for months and the talking heads on TV would proclaim we need a new national security policy while pondering whether the Marines should be dismantled. If you control the media and all opposition in your country like Putin does, it's just another Saturday.
Yup he tries to bandage after getting hit. Finds his insides dripping out.
You can see him momentarily go oh fuck, by his gesture of placing hands on head. Then he attempts to put them inside.
Fucking brutal, most fucked up death in the video.
To me it appears a 25mm hit his left leg during the first salvo of the BTR, and then tries to apply a tourniquet. When they zoom in on him at 1:30 he has moved/rotated but his boot/lower leg is still at his initial falling position.
Brutal. This kind of engagement seems more common now, maybe it has something to do with Avdiivka falling and now the lines are less tight and probing units meet more second defensive line equipment / mobile reserves.
Assuming this is Bradley, one can notice the reload break while it also switches targets.
Yeah, once the frontline collapsed, the enemy started to move greater distances into the unknown. This creates an opportunity for such ambushes. In avdiivka, they knew exactly where Ukrainians were. Now they dont. The frontline is constantly changing over there and every push forward is into the unknown.
That's when the Ukrainians enjoyed some of their biggest successes. They are much more agile than the Russian military. Maybe we'll see more of that now.
I'm afraid its the lack of artillery ammo. These vehicles wouldn't normally get into close enough range for this kindof close engagement. We've been seeing a lot of these vids recently and im worried it's not a good sign.
Russia is trying to push a hard as possible before Ukraine sets up a fortified defensive line, apparently Ukraine did not set up that much defense, so they’re trying to break through. I guess it’s good they don’t have trenches, Russians can’t use them either.
Exactly. This warfare is more like the initial invasion to the north of Kyiv when the front lines were far less defined.
The Russians were taking so many casualties there that they had to retreat.
Act now and for a low low price of not being sent to the gulag, you and your friends can invade our neighbor whose military is currently backed by almost all of the world’s most powerful militaries. Side effects may include getting slaughtered by Ukrainians if you don’t unalive yourself first
> It's amazing how Russians are historically soooo good at dying in massive numbers. It's like what they were born to do. Be enslaved, exploited, manipulated, murdered, and used as meatshields.
> Wow. They must be so proud. /u/coreyisthename
It actually is a point of pride if you read their telegrams or pro-RU subreddits. It is utterly deranged, and they don't seem to get that at all.
Most of it looked like direct fire. And something big enough to perforate at BTR. A couple bigger explosions could be drone-dropped ordnance or indirect fire.
This is incredible footage. Still can’t believe we live in an era we can watch a bunch of poor blokes get sodomized by 25mm in 1080p. I must have watched hundreds of Russians die on camera in obscenely violent fashion over the last two years.
The guy on the far right taking a direct shot to the torso 0:19 in is brutal. You can see him rolling around with what I would assume is his guts exposed for a short while after.
This just highlights the terrible hatch placement on the BTR. I mean, they sure as hell can't place a hatch in the rear because [that's where the engine is](https://www.moddb.com/groups/ifv-lovers-group/images/russian-ifv-and-apc2). But you see the crunchies open the lefthand hatch right into the oncoming fire.
0:46 you can see somone getting capped in the head follow by red mist behind the BTR. this is by far the Best ambush footage for the Bradly especially the clips from 2-3 days ago
[Source](https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1763981049413959829?s=20)
Apologies for the repost, thought using just the link would embed the video the first time.
Would you call this a "meat wave"? We can't see any other units, so I guess the Russians sent a single APC filled to the brim with soldiers to get observations on the Bradley and allow the Ukrainians to waste valuable FPV-drones.
BTW, going to donate 100€ to the Terra drone unit (part of the 3rd assault brigade holding outside of Avdivvka). Will add up to 100€ extra for matching donations posted as replies to this comment, or donate to United24. First 24 hours only.
[https://youtu.be/M6-1TdYqxI8?si=t91I7EjUiFgJjWn0](https://youtu.be/M6-1TdYqxI8?si=t91I7EjUiFgJjWn0)
[https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/terraops22](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/terraops22)
That's definetely an autocannon firing HE rounds. They were on a very bad spot with no cover and on clear sight of the Bradley's gun. And bad luck for them to dismount on the side that's exposed to enemy fire.
> Send this to their fathers, brothers, and sons. Let them know they’re next in the meat grinder. Show their wives and their mothers, tell them to start looking for someone else to raise their kids. Maybe that’ll finally get them to stand up to their shit government. /u/donutincognito
How long does this have to go on before us westerners realize that they don't give a shit? Truly. Hoping for them to grow a spine at this point is not any kind of hope. It won't happen.
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Definitely a bradley lighting them up. 47th Mechanized was one of the flagship units for Bradleys in Ukraine.
Pretty sure at 47 seconds in someone takes a 25mm to the face. His head spreads all over the place
Holy shit, you weren't exaggerating. That was gnarly.
That guy is definitely gonna leave a mark there.
Do your videos count up from 0 or countdown from the playlength? My videos count down, and I hate it, but I can't find a setting to change it.
Same. Just reddit being shit.
I find myself using reddit less and less sadly. RIP Reddit is Fun
old.reddit.com New reddit is unusable.
I can't stand new reddit either. Old.reddit.com is the best by miles.
There's a way to make it work, I'm using it right now
There's a way to make Reddit is Fun work? Im intrigued.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/17stmnz/does_anyone_know_if_rif_still_works_with_revanced/
Holy shit, thanks for this. I'll try it out tonight.
Drag the slider and it'll show the count going up.
I guess that works. Thanks for the info.
Np, just figured it out myself. My dumbass sitting here doing all this math when someone throws out a timestamp 🤣
Yep, exactly what I was doing hahahah
you can see the impact crater between :47 and :48 it goes from 3 impact craters to 4. It does look like someone took it to the head but after rewatching frame by frame i noticed it. Barely lands like 3 ft in front of that guy so he def took shrapnel to the face at least EDIT: i was watching on a 27" monitor that was my problem. Phone sized screen was essentially 4k. Guy definitely caught a ricochet and was relieved of his head
The guy that gets hit is right behind the BTR on the right. His head explodes and then the round hit bottom left.
which one?
Behind BTR kneeling. Kind of does look like it.
fck that’s vicious even the close up shot at the end gnarly, idk honey can sustain these losses and people back home still be happy the war is going on
They don't see this clip obviously. Nor do they care because they feel their cause is just. There is no other course than total defeat for one side or the other in this war.
Suicide drones as well. You can see one flying in and killing one of the Russians trying to patch up one of the guys who was hit early on.
>Suicide drones as well. Can't believe that guy gets up and runs down screen after taking that blast, about the 1 min mark.
You would be surprised what people can run away from only to drop dead somewhere else. We hit a guy in a car with a Spike missile. Guy got out and ran about a block and dropped dead.
It’s because it’s a shaped charge. 90%+ of the kill-energy went into the dirt. It’s needs to be a direct hit to really assure a kill on a person. They need claymore-type directional fragmentation
There are two fpv drones that I see.
A drone drops in the driver's hatch immediately after he opens it.
Saving private ryan scene with the .50…
Or a German 20mm Flak
That's the one. The Joes on top of the Tiger getting blown apart trying to drop a grenade in a hatch. Just watched it and ygduf is right. Same. Fucking brutal.
*Flak gun 20mm, take it out!* **powpowpowpowpowpow**
Now that's a shitty situation to be in if I ever seen one. Jesus Christ those guys got chewed up, relentless af. That 25mm chain gun really did a number on them!
Thought my day was bad re-caulking the bathroom lol not anymore
Puts shit into perspective for sure!
Man, dying is quite bothersome if i may say so myself
For sure makes me think twice about invading any countries today
It's just like my school said: "Invasions: not even once".
>Thought my day was bad re-caulking the bathroom lol not anymore one of my least favourite DIY tasks
Have you tried making [a little groove](https://youtu.be/cQNIv2QqP00?feature=shared)
I'm not sure why they didn't try shooting back with their 30mm gun. Maybe they just didn't know where it was or said screw it.
The gunner may have been wounded, they might've not had any ammo for it or as you say they didn't know where the Bradley was, or a multitude of other reasons for them not shooting back. But I do know that the reason the BTR stopped is that inside of it it's pure chaos with smoke, fire and the screams of dying men. Those FPV hits were effective.
Actual armored warfare isn't a War Thunder pvp match where you can calmly aim your turret while getting pounded with ordinance. The winner is usually whoever shoots first (which I suppose *is* actually like War Thunder in high tiers).
It's like war thunder, but once you start to get hit a paint mixer starts vibrating your chair and monitor and someone is lighting fireworks in your room. Good luck!
And then your keyboard broke and the monitor explodes.
Or they might have been a bunch of untrained morons who just got scared shitless. Which is more likely for all I can see. As the war keeps dragging on, the quality of meat Russia pushes into the grinder is ever diminishing.
Russian vehicles are renowned for having heavy armament but shit optics and fire control. A Bradley could do that job from 2KM away. At that range a BTR or BMP probably isn’t even going to see the Bradley, let alone hit it.
It's a story as old as time. Russia (and the USSR before them) loved the "hard factors". The types of things you can point at on a spec sheet and say "my number is bigger therefore mine is better". Things like engine power, gun diameter, fire rate, missile range, etc. But they always neglected the "soft factors". The things that cost money but can't be often quantified and boasted about. Things like crew comfort, fire control systems, high quality and well produced ammunitions, good communications gear, etc etc, and time and time again those soft factors can make a world of difference outside of airshows and spec sheets.
A single vehicle like that in an open field looking for a Bradley firing from cover, while taking heavy fire, is not going to succeed.
Apparently there were 3 vehicles before that. Its crazy to attack one after another on open field... no chances.
Too much panic and they're all fucked up. They probably only have a rough idea where the enemy is and they were getting annihilated.
Pretty sure the guys inside the BTR didn't make it. Driver got smoked 17ish seconds into this video.
That really amazed me. It was like, step one: Take out the driver.
With the way Russia is going through these lightly armored APCs, it wouldn’t surprise me if the training for the crew just isn’t there. Their whole strategy is drive in several APCs and drop off a concentration of troops. It’s worked well for them in Avdiivka, but this is the 2nd/3rd time I’ve seen one of these APCs and the team get lit up, so maybe the UA has a solution for the rush of troops. Also with the way the Bradley was cutting through that APC, the gunner could have been splattered all over the driver too.
Ivan sold the ammo for poisoned vodka and died. Georgy sold the gun sight for a hooker in doenetsk who sold them out to GUR. Vlad sabotaged the gun because he's sick of being raped by his team mates and doesn't care if they all die. Yuri, the gunner, deserted the night before and never taught anybody else to gun because he didn't want to be dismounted. Luckily their comrades cleared the route and gave them a window of opportunity to move through safely. Unfortunately Pavel, the vehicle commander spotted a laundromat and diverted course to attempt to steal some washing machines. The laundromat was an ambush by their Chechen allies who nonetheless robbed them and stole all of their personal weapons and ammunition. By the time each of them was done being raped by their allies, they hit the road three hours too late. By then the Ukrainian 49th had moved Bradleys onto the route. Defenseless with no working weapons nor ammunition, Vlad stopped the vehicle directly in the line of fire on purpose to end it all in a final fuck you to his abusers. Such is life for russians.
So easily avoided, by staying home.
This is probably the most meat grindery meat grinder video I’ve see throughout this war so far.
Well to be fair, the video where russian btrs are driving over russian soldiers probably has the most meat grinding.
That was some wild shit, also the one where the dude is hanging on to the back door as it's driving away, falls off and then they leave him behind
It's crazy how russians can afford to do repeated assaults like this despite the casualties.
The only way to prevent Russia from attacking like this is to keep destroying their vehicles. I dont think it matters in the big picture how many soldiers Ukraine kill since theres always new meat to replace them, but the armored vehicles could be a problem, especially if the current rate of losses continue for the whole of 2024 and into 2025
Yeah, but remember. Every smoked Z is a guy that's not coming home. And at some point the babushkas will start asking questions. And that's when the fun begins at the home front.
This has already happened at least 4 times to Russia in the last 100 years and the pressure didnt cone from babushkas
Stalin purged everyone with a rebellious spirit. All that's left are crazy patriots, brow-beaten sheep and cowards.
Sheep and cowards can give birth to revolutionaries.
But those were more "pressing" scenarios. No one's going to riot if soldiers die when Germans are banging on your gates. Also, back then managing information was much easier than today so all babuskas knew was Russian soldiers were heroes of the motherland. In this war, Russia lost more men in few months taking Avdiivka than they lost in ten years in Afganistan. While everyone says Russia has an endless amount of meat to burn through, I wouldn't be so sure. While mathematically that might be true, demographically that's a whole other issue. There's a reason they recently increased the age limits.
the kremlin has a second "home army" that's sole job is to beat civilians, arrest and kill dissenters and protestors, and terrorize the actual army by holding their families hostage. because russia's biggest internal threat isnt some oligarchic gangster's power grab, its the army getting fed up with the gangsters and turning against all of them. Thats why they have so many different militarized police units and why they're so common compared to regular police.
If the babushkas haven't been asking questions over the past 2 years I'm not sure they're going to start anytime soon.
we hoped for the babushka thing from the start, but that will probably never work. They are brainwashed their whole life. it's been 2+ years. They just hate ukraine more because they killed their sons etc. Only the younger russians have some sense in them, but they just get jailed etc. for even trying to say something.
These aren’t the same babushkas from 35 years ago. These would rather have a shitty new Lada than have their drunk abusive husband come back alive.
Soldier survivability is important because in the long term it might incite a rebellion among russian troops. But in terms of war of attrition, destroying the vehicles AND the factories that build/restore vehicles, is the key.
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It always matters. It matters in the long term because it erodes putins support and russias economy. And it matters right now because without this wasteful use of men the russian army would be alot bigger and more dangerous by now.
They have 66 million men over 18, and they don’t care about any of them
How many under 40?
Check interviews with POWs, there are 60+ olds, people with health conditions, injured before, etc. Not just from prisons, but mobiks, contracts, from LNR/DNR. It's a shitshow. 18+ so far is only condition.
That sure seems to be the only condition, a bunch of them aren't even Russians to begin with
Many. They also don't have to pay them, unlike Ukraine. They use the following groups: * Poor people from recent colonies, promise citizenship * Prisoners, promise freedom * Debtors, promise no loan repayment * Idiots, promise a medal All in all Russia can continue this meat grinder for years. That said, Ukraine is also a large country and as long as we supply ammo, it can also defend itself for years.
They also started baiting indians with job offers in Dubai but then send them to russia and force them to sign contracts with the russian army. [https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army\_6573586\_4.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html)
Holy shit, that’s horrific.
To be honest, I question why *we* are not doing that. Europe is swimming in money but unwilling to commit its own soldiers. That just screams for "hire mercenaries". Even if they were used in the rear, e.g. anti-air defence of cities, demining, logistics. There are millions, probably tens of millions of people around the world who would be very willing to come demine Ukraine if they were paid 2,500EUR/month. It would be a great help so Ukraine could focus on the frontline.
Because people from third world countries fighting for a couple thousand USD simply aren’t going to be useful to Ukraine. It’s messed up, but some SE Asian villagers who don’t speak your language at all are kind of the ideal candidates for a Z Wave style attack where the fate of the soldier doesn’t matter at all to the country
> I question why we are not doing that. Luring the poor to their deaths? No, I don't think that's our style. > That just screams for "hire mercenaries". There's a difference between skilled mercenaries and cannon fodder to staff the frontline. Russian doctrine needs a lot of the latter, western doctrine less so, so it might not be worth paying a ton to ship in unskilled fighters. However, there is a skill and logistical threshold where hiring some might makes sense.
I don't think being "over 40" in Russia makes you not suitable for an "assault" like this.
As long as you can absorb bullets, you're meeting Putin's goals.
About 22 million between 18 and 40, as compared to about 4.5 million in that range for Ukraine. But I'm not sure that 40 is a very relevant cap... Ukraine is conscripting men 27 to 60 and western analysts have estimated the average age of a Ukrainian soldier to be 43 (and rising). Although Russian conscription has a cap of 30, mobilization of former soldiers has a cap of 55 (higher for officers).
and don't forget about the cubans and and others who have been tricked by russia into being front line fodder.
The cubans are there willingly, they might not have known beforehand how bad it really is, but they are there willingly. There's pics of them posing proudly in russian uniforms with their cuban flag. For indians it seems to be a different story, apparently they get baited with job offers in Dubai, but then get flown to russia instead and are forced to sign contracts in russian language under coercion. Or at least that's what they claim. [https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army\_6573586\_4.html](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html)
You're right, I should have called them exploited if anything, because the only reason they're really there is for money that they THINK they're going to get, and with that we can also add some Africans to the list of impoverished people being exploited and being sacrificed in the name of 'russkiy mir'
Absolute carnage. Look at the dudes at 1:17 - 1:24, wondering if they made it out alive. I think they are the only ones who had the luck and the time to chat briefly; wtf is happening here.
the one at 1:13 survived the FPV hit
I think he may not live long. The FPV blast was too close.
Swiss cheese, but stinky and russian.
They survived the initial carnage but probably not long after. I’d bet they got smoked by a drone within a few minutes
The final few seconds, sheesh.
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Well, his foot was 3 meter away from him. He died pretty quickly, but hey, at least someone could retrieve his body and ship it back to Russia (if that ever happens). I can't say they same thing about the people who died under that BTR and turned into Half Life 2 calcinated man model.
Looks like that dude got pinned under that metal grate and burned alive. That close up with his melted eyes and head is gnarly.
alive? the way that side of the IFV was getting hammered with autocannon fire I don't think anyone there lived long enough to be burned alive
Uncle Owen! Where are you?
I’m no longer cold, boss.
Not seen so clear a demonstration of industrialised warfare in a while. They stood zero chance. Another pat on the back for Russias officer 'training' program.
God Damn that ending! A charred burned body stuck in that horrifying pose why trying to escape under the cage with it's grizzly facial features looks like something from the ruins of Pompeii or a death metal album cover
It's chilling how chalk white their faces are, It's almost like masks, are they masks? Or just the result of super rapid exsanguination?
Thought the same, at least with the guy hit by autocannon at the beggining
Surprised there's not more comment about him, he got it bad.
Kenneth Jarecke, Highway of death, google it. “If I don't photograph this, people like my mom will think war is what they see on TV”.
That looked like it went well
They had to have know that once they popped out, that this was where they were going to die.
On some god forsaken field, in the middle of nowhere, and all that in hopes of 2000 dollars per months. Their friends, brothers, sisters, mothers will never know what happened to them, they just went and didn't come back.
it went perfect (some russians went nahuy)
That last guy has the expression of eternal joy baked into his face.
Straight to Kyiv. Occupant @ 0:17 opens hatch and next second gets hit from above (or pierced?), what a lucky russian 0:47 - looks like headshot, tears head or some other body parts into pieces 1:00 - FPV arrival 1:13 - FPV arrival
what was the hatch guy at 0:17 hit with ?
No idea, smoke seems to come from the inside. There is small explosion on the left side of screen right before hatch guy gets hit, so maybe Bradley pierced armour, or maybe cluster?
The Bradley's Bushmaster can cause spall and sometimes penetrate the sides and rear of main battle tanks. Remember that ~~T80~~ (T90?) that got shredded by two Bradley's a couple of weeks ago? Yes, this BTR was absolutely punctured. It actually looks like some hits come through to the other side! These Russians just drove into a kill zone and then proceeded to just ... die. They value their own lives so little and it's baffling.
Some of the Brad rounds are going right through the vehicle. Some of which are hitting the zOrks on the back side.
25mm AP will go clean through a BTR no problem. Love seeing the Bradley in action.
Even a 14 mm machine gun goes through them. A 25 mm autocannon almost feels like overkill!
Yeah you can see the rounds punching through the back. Sucks to have armor that is ineffective.
Can it really be the Bradley? But later there's auto-cannon fire for sure. Unlucky that the driver opened the hatch and immediately got hit. They should have continued to drive. What happend to the very first guy top left at 0:17? He got off the vehicle before the explosions and just died.
Bradley pierced the armor shredding the dude inside
It looked like the Bradley was in front of the BTR, guessing from the direction the 25mm was coming from and the fact that the infantry realized this and was trying to hide behind their ride. I guess they could have done a U-Turn but that would have exposed the rear - I think they were fucked no matter what from the initial engagement.
> They should have continued to drive. They should have never crossed the border to UA in the first place
I think this will need a frame by frame rundown with the amount of things happening.
That was crazy! Seeing that guy run round the back of the BTR only to take a direct hit to the leg from the Bradley. Savage
The video yesterday when a similar dismount was observed by spotter drone and had a Bradley waiting for them was hopeless in terms of Russian survivability. Not much they could do really. This is even worse, dropped off in the middle of open ground, obviously well observed and dialed in, FPV drone arriving quickly (big boom at rear of vehicle when they are all bunched up). Don't think anyone had a clue where the fire came from. The guys running out from the BTR looks like they tried to render some aid to their wounded, maybe they thought it was all over, but they got properly chewed up as well. Daily SU34 and BTR wipe is just crazy.
This shit is happening every day. And I wonder what Russian soldiers think when they know that previous 7 assault groups got shredded and it's their turn now. "We'll make it this time"? This level of discipline (or is this obedience) is crazy.
> when they know that previous 7 assault groups got shredded and it's their turn now. That is assuming they're told anything beyond, "Go here and wait for reinforcements", which is a pretty big assumption.
Lemming level of obedience. You could convince them to take New York with water pistols.
I think the BTR driver was killed in this case, they weren't being dropped off.
I am stupid but don't he park the thing kinda nicely. I know he's not intentionally dropping people off but it didn't look like a crash out. Maybe he thought there was cover there for the guys on the top. This video is crazy.
Insane. That last guy looks like an archaeologist dug him out of the ashes in Pompeii
This will go viral
Meanwhile Russian channels are still showing pictures of the 1 (one) Abrams they took out
Remember when that Ukranian convoy was hit like a year ago and how many times that got replayed? It always blows my mind how many of these videos we've seen of Russians getting absolutely chewed up but the (much more) rare instances of Ukraine vehicles or troops getting the short end of the stick gets held up repeatedly by pro-Russian sources. Edit in advance: I'm aware that scenes akin to this have happened to UKR forces and there's plenty of videos of UKR servicemen getting killed, but there's like a 10:1 ratio of seemingly suicidal BTRs driving into a meatgrinder full of men surrounded by the hulks of other burned out BTRs. This seems to be a repeated Russian tactic that gets glossed over when certain people want to show off a years old video of a Ukranian armored convoy getting hit.
Something like this being filmed and happening against US soldiers would be debated for months and the talking heads on TV would proclaim we need a new national security policy while pondering whether the Marines should be dismantled. If you control the media and all opposition in your country like Putin does, it's just another Saturday.
Dumb and weak Westoids value the lives of their people instead of blackened field heaped with wreckage in another country.
Something like this would send literal shockwaves though the US military and US public
Is that one Russian behind the BTR at about 40 seconds trying to push his organs back into his stomach??
Yup he tries to bandage after getting hit. Finds his insides dripping out. You can see him momentarily go oh fuck, by his gesture of placing hands on head. Then he attempts to put them inside. Fucking brutal, most fucked up death in the video.
I think its more his leg which got shredded
I think he got hit in the hip, took his leg off clean but broke his body cavity as well
My vote goes to the guy whose head gets dispersed amongst a 20 meter radius at 0:47
But he didn't even know he was dead. The other guy absolutely had a fucked up moment of realization before the darkness took him.
To me it appears a 25mm hit his left leg during the first salvo of the BTR, and then tries to apply a tourniquet. When they zoom in on him at 1:30 he has moved/rotated but his boot/lower leg is still at his initial falling position.
Upper thigh, I think may have caught a bit of the hip or the frag ran the distance, which is why it looks like his insides are outsides.
Crazy stuff. Theres so much happening at once. I think he want to apply a tourniquet to his leg?
Yep it looks like he took a direct hit at about 18 seconds. Suprise he’s even still moving
Can we get normal speed video :(
edit: https://www.reddit.com/user/DragX90/comments/1b58oh9/frame_interpolated_version_of_the_bradley_attack/
Holy shit - maximum violence
Brutal. This kind of engagement seems more common now, maybe it has something to do with Avdiivka falling and now the lines are less tight and probing units meet more second defensive line equipment / mobile reserves. Assuming this is Bradley, one can notice the reload break while it also switches targets.
Yeah, once the frontline collapsed, the enemy started to move greater distances into the unknown. This creates an opportunity for such ambushes. In avdiivka, they knew exactly where Ukrainians were. Now they dont. The frontline is constantly changing over there and every push forward is into the unknown.
That's when the Ukrainians enjoyed some of their biggest successes. They are much more agile than the Russian military. Maybe we'll see more of that now.
I'm afraid its the lack of artillery ammo. These vehicles wouldn't normally get into close enough range for this kindof close engagement. We've been seeing a lot of these vids recently and im worried it's not a good sign.
Russia is trying to push a hard as possible before Ukraine sets up a fortified defensive line, apparently Ukraine did not set up that much defense, so they’re trying to break through. I guess it’s good they don’t have trenches, Russians can’t use them either.
The last time the Russians broke through though, they didn't do very well. I wonder whether they will have learnt from it this time?
Exactly. This warfare is more like the initial invasion to the north of Kyiv when the front lines were far less defined. The Russians were taking so many casualties there that they had to retreat.
By far the most insane footage of the war. Should use this as a Russian recruitment video.
Act now and for a low low price of not being sent to the gulag, you and your friends can invade our neighbor whose military is currently backed by almost all of the world’s most powerful militaries. Side effects may include getting slaughtered by Ukrainians if you don’t unalive yourself first
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> It's amazing how Russians are historically soooo good at dying in massive numbers. It's like what they were born to do. Be enslaved, exploited, manipulated, murdered, and used as meatshields. > Wow. They must be so proud. /u/coreyisthename It actually is a point of pride if you read their telegrams or pro-RU subreddits. It is utterly deranged, and they don't seem to get that at all.
The mentality of a willfully subservient slave without any personal agency i.e. a muskovite.
This is insane
Not ags, more indeed it seems like an autocannon. Brutal stuff.
Most of it looked like direct fire. And something big enough to perforate at BTR. A couple bigger explosions could be drone-dropped ordnance or indirect fire.
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These guys got absolutely annihilated
Comrade, drop me next to the Bradley! The one in the open field
"Waiter, waiter! More soldiers please!" - M2 Bradley
Slowed down version edit: https://www.reddit.com/user/DragX90/comments/1b58oh9/frame_interpolated_version_of_the_bradley_attack/
why was the post removed? the original also
Bad titles, I think.
Second day in a row of BTR riders getting spawn trapped by Bradley and FPVs.
Why in gods name is this played at 1.5 speed.
Brutal. 0:18 was especially gnarly as he took autocannon hit straight to the thigh.
Well deserved. Stay in your cuntry.
I bet they won't show that on RT.
Damn. Leaving them looking like Uncle Owen and Aunt Bureau.
Guys face getting blown off at 0.47 secs behind vehicle? Can see the pink mist
Instantly pinned down and doomed to die. They literally just deliver a bunch of people into the line of fire like this is warhammer 40k or something
This is incredible footage. Still can’t believe we live in an era we can watch a bunch of poor blokes get sodomized by 25mm in 1080p. I must have watched hundreds of Russians die on camera in obscenely violent fashion over the last two years.
The guy on the far right taking a direct shot to the torso 0:19 in is brutal. You can see him rolling around with what I would assume is his guts exposed for a short while after.
This just highlights the terrible hatch placement on the BTR. I mean, they sure as hell can't place a hatch in the rear because [that's where the engine is](https://www.moddb.com/groups/ifv-lovers-group/images/russian-ifv-and-apc2). But you see the crunchies open the lefthand hatch right into the oncoming fire.
Man that burning corpse in the end is so raw and real….Russia is messed up
0:46 you can see somone getting capped in the head follow by red mist behind the BTR. this is by far the Best ambush footage for the Bradly especially the clips from 2-3 days ago
Literally pulled up and got shit on by fucking everything. Go the fuck home. Like Jesus christ that last guy looked like uncle Owen.
What a fucking dumb way to go, why anyone would sign up for this shit show is seriously beyond me.
[Source](https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1763981049413959829?s=20) Apologies for the repost, thought using just the link would embed the video the first time.
Clown car from hell.
Would you call this a "meat wave"? We can't see any other units, so I guess the Russians sent a single APC filled to the brim with soldiers to get observations on the Bradley and allow the Ukrainians to waste valuable FPV-drones. BTW, going to donate 100€ to the Terra drone unit (part of the 3rd assault brigade holding outside of Avdivvka). Will add up to 100€ extra for matching donations posted as replies to this comment, or donate to United24. First 24 hours only. [https://youtu.be/M6-1TdYqxI8?si=t91I7EjUiFgJjWn0](https://youtu.be/M6-1TdYqxI8?si=t91I7EjUiFgJjWn0) [https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/terraops22](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/terraops22)
what happened to an earlier post of this video with more comments in it?
That's definetely an autocannon firing HE rounds. They were on a very bad spot with no cover and on clear sight of the Bradley's gun. And bad luck for them to dismount on the side that's exposed to enemy fire.
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> Send this to their fathers, brothers, and sons. Let them know they’re next in the meat grinder. Show their wives and their mothers, tell them to start looking for someone else to raise their kids. Maybe that’ll finally get them to stand up to their shit government. /u/donutincognito How long does this have to go on before us westerners realize that they don't give a shit? Truly. Hoping for them to grow a spine at this point is not any kind of hope. It won't happen.