Brutal drone footage from Azov's 3rd Assault Brigade shows Ukrainian troops killing a fire team of Russian soldiers in a close quarters firefight and then wiping out two more teams of Russian reinforcements.

As the video begins two Ukrainian soldier can be seen exchanging close range gun fire with a Russian soldier while a second wounded Russian soldier lies near. The Russian is shot and killed by a burst of rifle fire.

Then, another two-man team of Russians unsuspectingly enter the kill zone, and they are also shot down. Lastly, a three-man team of Russians enters the area and two are immediately shot down, and the third attempts to escape, but he doesn't make it far before he his mortally wounded as well.

The fighting likely took place somewhere on the flanks of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.

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