Slightly controversial footage released by Ukrainian sources shows a civilian transport vehicle being struck by a small landmine. The controversy stems from the recording vehicle pushing past the downed truck because some people are entirely ignorant to the fact that a video is a 2-dimensional image.

I've beaten this horse to death enough for the Funker530 audience, so I'm sure you guys can already write the blog post down in the comments for me. Long story short though, there's about eleven billion reasons these guys could be pushing past the downed vehicle, and we likely won't know what the actual reason is until the guy who released the footage comes forward to explain the situation.

There's a chance that their unit SOP dictates that the follow on vehicle pushes through the mine-site in order to secure the far side from an ambush while the bump plan is being executed. On top of that, there's an even stronger chance that mission-dictates the armor keeps moving until it finds a position of cover to protect itself from potential follow on ATGM attacks. Even more simply, their vehicle is too full to properly execute a bump plan, and their mission brief has a vehicle behind this one picking up any stragglers in the event of a mine strike.

At face value, yeah, this could easily be mistaken as Ukrainians abandoning their guys who just hit a mine. Reality is likely quite different however. A short piece of video does not, and never will, give you the entire perspective of a complex and violent situation unfolding in real-time.

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