Friday, August 18, 2023

Ukraine Has Deployed Its Last (And Best) Reserves Into The Counteroffensive

An 82nd Brigade Challenger 2 with a new cope cage. Via social media © Provided by Forbes

Warzone/The Drive: Ukrainian Stryker Seen In Frontline Video For The First Time  

The Stryker is seen being attacked by a Lancet loitering munition as it uses its high-speed abilities to traverse a road in the open. 

What appears to be the first combat-related video of a U.S.-donated Stryker Armored Vehicle in Ukraine has emerged on social media. The Strykers have been puzzlingly absent from media coming from the front since the counteroffensive began, with some positing they were being held in reserve for a larger thrust. 

The 28-second video, originally posted by the Russian ZA_FROHT Telegram channel Tuesday, is apparently a Russian drone’s view of the vehicle hauling down a roadway. ZA_FROHT says the video shows "the combat work of the Osman army special forces unit to destroy the Stryker...with the Lancet loitering ammunition in the Zaporizhzhia direction."  

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Update #1: Ukraine’s Powerful 82nd Brigade, Once Held In Reserve, Has Finally Joined The Counteroffensive -- Forbes  

Update #2: Ukraine’s ‘Ridiculously Powerful’ 82nd Air Assault Brigade Is Finally in Action -- Kyiv Post 

WNU Editor: Russian media and military bloggers are reporting the deployment of Ukraine's best forces into the battle has resulted in heavy losses for this brigade .... Deployment of Elite 82nd Brigade ‘Won’t Turn the Tide’ of Ukraine’s Flagging Counteroffensive (Sputnik). More here .... Steamrolled by Russians (B92).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The stryker shown in the vid has been much discussed. What is most noted is that the Russians cut the vid So the RuZZians did not get what they wanted. ie explosion. Maybe there were, but the Russian orcs would have shown them, if there were.

I get it. It was a very bad time for some people. The video cut. There were no explosions and they didn't climax.

It was speculated that the Stryker was working as an ambulance.

Still WNU is in an upbeat jovial mood. this is the last and the best and it failed. Feeling his oats.

That rail line is coming into range. That is the end of the Russians.

Anonymous said...

That was a direct hit.

Anonymous said...

If it was a direct hit, then where is the video of a disabled and burning stryker? where is the video of secondary explosions?

Why cut out?

I'll help you out you pathetic dumb ruzzian troll. Just claim you drone filming it got hit.

Anonymous said...

It sure looks like a direct hit. May he didn't watch the clip to the end before he was overcome with his anger.

Hans Persson said...

Yesterday I saw a new video of how a sole russian tank stopped and and destroyed yet another Ukie armored column... RIP.

Worst thing is that I almost think it was a few CV90's.. Hope I was wrong, they fired back like crazy but they kept exploding.