🔴The intense reality of a frontline operation by Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade.
The video documents high-stakes trench clearing, heavy close-quarters combat, and the eventual capture of a prisoner who is granted official POW status and medical aid amidst the chaos.
Douglas FC-47 "Spooky" gunship first prototype 43-48579 in action over South Vietnam in 1965
The designation was changed soon after to AC-47 as apparently fighter pilots objected to an antiquated former transport being placed in the same category as their jets
Footage of Ukrainian forces from the 201st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade using their Spanish and US-supplied HAWK SAM systems to shoot down Russian air targets over southern Ukraine.
"Russia has stepped up its attacks on Ukraine’s ports in recent weeks, with potentially dire consequences for agricultural exports. Fully 90% of Ukraine’s grains and oilseeds go through Odessa and the nearby ports of Chornomorsk and Pivdenne. Russia is hitting infrastructure and shipping with missiles and drones from Crimea. There have been at least 56 attacks this month, killing 26 port workers and sailors. Some facilities have suspended operations, including a sunflower-oil terminal at Chornomorsk set ablaze on July 14th...
The attacks coincide with Ukraine’s harvest, forecast at 81m tonnes of grains and oilseeds, up from 80m tonnes last year. But Taras Vysotsky, the agriculture minister, warns that exports were down by a quarter in May and June, and 'if attacks double or triple, it’ll really be a challenge.' Agricultural goods make up nearly 60% of Ukraine’s total exports."
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Karas, Ukrainian Azov officer who survived Olenivka: One interrogator told me, 'You're holding up well, we've broken worse than you.' He pulled sex toys out of a bag, bigger, smaller.
That wasn't physical anymore, it was psychological. I said: I'll sign everything. 1/