Cell phone footage released to Telegram by a Ukrainian Soldier captures a Russian thermite munition detonating over the top of his fighting position.

The only additional context that exists for this piece of footage is that the recording Soldier extinguished the fire in his fighting position and survived the attack. I can imagine that the purpose of this attack was to ignite the forest around the Ukrainian's fighting positions in an attempt to smoke them out of the tree-line.

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