This footage, provided by the Sheikh Mansur Battalion, shows an artillery detachment of Grad MLRS trucks being used to fire salvos at Russian positions. An artilleryman addresses one of the rockets with "for Makhno" and "for Bek"- notice that the Russians have evidently had this one coming.

"For Makhno" is possibly a reference to Ukrainian revolutionary, anarchist and freedom fighter Nestor Makhno, or to the Battalion's 3rd Company, which shares his name, while "Bek" is an unknown reference- possibly a wounded or killed comrade.

The Sheikh Mansur Battalion is a group of pro-Ukrainian Chechen fighters, many of whom are veterans of the Chechen Wars. The Battalion is named in honor of Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen Muslim who led forces to resist Russian expansion in the 18th century. With such a lineage, their participation in the current fight against Russian expansion isn't hard to explain. The Battalion performs a variety of infantry (link NSFW) and artillery roles- essentially, giving it to the Russians any way they can.

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