This is the same event you saw in The Battle of Oleg Sentsov Platoon (https://youtu.be/PiUV5KmOyX4), but from the perspective of the 47th Brigade drone pilots and Bradley crews.
You get to see a much broader picture of the carnage that has been happening at the front that day.
That day (tentatively October 19, 2023), the 47th Mechanized Assault Brigade planned a small-scale nighttime infantry operation: three small assault groups were to retake three separate positions with projected light enemy presence.
Little did they know that the Russians would launch a massive mechanized assault in the same sector of the Avdiivka front that very morning.
As the sun began to rise, several Russian mechanized columns consisting of tanks and APCs, carrying a large number of mounted infantry, pushed towards the defensive lines held by the Ukrainian 110th Mechanized Bridge, the Presidential Brigade, and the positions retaken by the elements of the 47th Assault Brigade at night.
Oleg Sentsov and his platoon of 13 ended up in the middle of all of this…
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Video source: Army TV https://youtu.be/trLOpGU_MMM
Aired: December 6, 2023
*English translation and subtitles created by the author of this channel.*
All rights reserved.
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*Note from the translator:*
I am afraid, the over-eager editors at the Army TV went a little too loose with the editing. Therefore, I strongly suggest you watch the original footage from the Oleg Sentsov’s platoon before viewing this to better orient yourselves within the sequence of events.
Watch this first https://youtu.be/PiUV5KmOyX4
In this production there are some truly questionable editing choices. I apologize for that in advance. So, don’t ask me later: “Why is there stock footage of a Bradley firing, followed by a shot of a Russian tank exploding?” (Because the tank rode over a landmine, but the editors thought it ‘looked cool’ to put the two shots together.) … “Isn’t that an airsoft weapon at 13:50” (Yes.) … Or “Why are they attaching an RKG-3 to an FPV drone, and in the next shot, dropping it on the infantry?” (Because the editors are millennials, they didn’t have military training in schools, and the sight of grandpa’s anti-tank grenade does not stir any emotions.)
In their defense, imagine that you are a young stud(-ette) at the video department of the Army press service. You think yourself very ‘cool’ because you grew up watching Michael Bay movies. And now some frontline trench rats send you some blurry low-res drone footage and interviews (Eew, people talking!) with some crusty farmers, and ask you to make a ‘popular’ film out of that.
So, what do you do? That’s right, you watch “Transformers” one more time, pull up some glossy footage from stock (anything ‘cool’ you can find, airsoft and all), and start turning a ‘boring documentary’ into a summer blockbuster.
I’m posting this stuff only for the sake of the interviews with the crusty Bradley drivers.