Six minutes of GoPro footage from last summer shows an assault team advancing on a Russian trench line and gaining a foothold. It's currently believed that this was filmed near Kamianske in May of 2023, and the guys that released the footage are with the Sonechko Reconnaissance Unit with the Ukrainian GUR.

There's some really solid fire and maneuver happening throughout this video and around the three minute mark you get a really good look at what micro-terrain is. When you're a gunfight, the difference between life and death can often become something as simple as the tire track of a tractor that pulled through the area years prior to you fighting in that field, and here we can see an entire squad of Ukrainians using exactly that to advance on a machine gun position.

The objective here is to gain a foothold in the Russian trench lines. Once enemy infantry is inside of your trench line, they become notoriously difficult to deal with. That's because, not only are you now fighting the enemy troops inside of your trench, but there are still the enemy troops outside of the trench maneuvering on your position that you need to deal with as well. Once the Ukrainians entered the Russian's trench here, it likely spelled the beginning of the end for the occupants of the fighting position.

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