Aerial footage recorded by a Ukrainian drone operator shows the destruction of an entrenched Russian position by a squad of Ukrainian troops. They utilize several fragmentation grenades to clear out an area of the trench used by Russian troops to rest and take shelter.

The dugout you see being destroyed in this video is a fairly common feature of trenches. Dugouts are used by troops in the field to take shelter during artillery and indirect fire barrages, and during periods of rest on the front-lines. In this instance, it appears that Russian troops may have fallen back to their dugout position while they were being overrun, which is generally speaking never a good idea as there is simply nowhere else to go once you're trapped inside.

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