This footage depicts Ukrainian soldiers pushing Russian forces back from their positions, and advancing through extremely close detonations to do so.

Presumably South of Bakhmut, this GoPro-style footage shows Ukrainian soldiers pressing Russian-held positions, despite the area being a largely open field with relatively little cover for their advance. This is the sort of problem we normally see addressed with APCs. However, the Ukrainians advance and clear the Russians out with small-arms fire, enduring incredibly close detonations- seemingly just feet away in some cases, as evidenced at the 0:17 mark. These explosions appear to be enemy fire in most cases, but as we all know, friendly fire isn’t friendly when it’s that close.

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