“Welcome to Ukraine, gentlemen!” — Vlad “Datsyk” and his merry men from the 2nd Assault Company, 2nd Infantry Assault Battalion, 3rd SAB, use audacity and wit to trick the full complement of a Russian forward observation post into surrendering.
The documentary is compiled mostly from the GoPro footage of the assault group commander Vlad “Datsyk” and “Sapron”, the soldier working in a pair with the point man “Hops”.
Original source: The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade https://youtu.be/NgoM2hUgk1k
Aired: January 21, 2025. Somewhere in the Kharkiv region.
This is an alternative, author’s translation. — By the time I was done with the translation, the 3rd SAB had managed to do their own, and did a remarkably good job of it. So, my translation does not add anything principally new. Just a few more nuances and footnotes, attempting to clarify better who’s talking to whom and why.
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*Notes:*
*Khokhol* is the stereotypical Cossack combat hairstyle — a mostly shaved head with a lock of hair grown long at the top, dangling down. For some unexplainable reason, “the goat-bearded ones” think that the word is an ethnic slur, and calling us that is somehow supposed to be insulting. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseledets
Here’s the undisputed unified world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk sporting an appropriately styled _khokhol_ https://shorturl.at/MGCp1
*Vald “Datsyk” Datskiy* – the commander of the 2nd Company in the 2nd Infantry Assault Battalion, 3rd SAB. For more see here https://youtu.be/UIePuA2g8us
(2:52) *”Hops”* — a soldier from the “Manticore” platoon of the 2nd Company, 2nd Assault Battalion. His call sign in Ukrainian is “Хміль” which can mean both _hops_ and _intoxication, buzz._
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