A Russian heavy machine gun team's position is given away by the muzzle flash of their weapon system emitting from the eighth story of an apartment complex in Bakhmut. Ukrainian forward observers relay the coordinates to a nearby M777 howitzer crew and they rapidly silence the machine gun nest with a direct hit from a 155mm high explosive artillery round.

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Will Killmore

Will Killmore is a US Army combat infantry veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Following his time in service, he successfully pursued a certificate of journalism and has been a blogger for Funker530 since 2014. Follow Will’s bad takes on Twitter