Mildly graphic footage coming out of Mariupol shows a squad-sized unit of Chechen fighters rescuing one of their wounded with a drag rope. This might be their first actual piece of combat footage.

This might be the first actual piece of combat footage to come out of the TikTok battalion so far. In this video, we're seeing them used a rope as an improvised litter to maneuver one of their wounded out of Ukrainian fire. Just before the cameraman begins to drag their wounded fighter, you can hear the Chechens pick up their own rate of fire to suppress where they believe Ukrainian fire is coming from. This is done to provide a wall of lead for their own wounded fighter to be rescued.

So far, we've mainly seen the Chechens posting TikTok style videos from their time in Mariupol. This could be an elaborately faked video with fake blood and faked gunfighting, but based on the situation in Mariupol currently, I doubt they would have the time to sit down and fake a casualty while wasting their own ammunition reserves. I could be entirely wrong, and I don't doubt for a second that we're not going to have at least 50 comments on this video with people calling it out as faked. That said, to me this appears to be actual combat footage, not just the Chechens dicking around for TikTok clout.