Dramatic bodycam footage shows a group of Ukrainian soldiers dressed in camouflage ambushing and taking out Russian forces in a military truck.
The footage emerged as Ukraine continued its stunning incursion into Russia — and reportedly also destroyed one of the Kremlin’s most expensive fighter jets, worth around $40 million.
The footage shows at least six heavily armed soldiers making their way through a thick forest as they fire on and take cover from a fleet of Russian vehicles driving through the Kursk region, the Sun reports.
The Ukrainian soldiers could also be seen throwing what appear to be grenades, with one serviceman firing a rocket launcher at the Kremlin convoy.
After various cuts in the footage of the fighting, the video shows that one of the Russian military trucks gets caught in the blast and is left burning on the roadside as the Ukrainian troops fire at the enemy soldiers.
The Ukrainian army said the Russian vehicle was “heavily filled with enemy personnel,” according to a Telegram post from the unit that carried out the attack.
After taking out the vehicle and the enemy combatants within the span of just “four minutes,” the Ukrainian soldiers could be seen celebrating its latest successful operation in Kursk, where Ukraine has made steady advances in an embarrassing saga for Moscow, which is scrambling to respond.
Along with the attack on the Russian convoy, Ukrainian forces have taken out one of Russia’s most expensive fighter jets that was deployed to the region, according to Kyiv’s top general, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
“Ukrainian defense forces destroyed an enemy Su-34,” Syrskyi touted on Telegram. “The skies over Kursk region became clearer.”
The Russian bomber has an estimated price tag of nearly $40 million and has been used to bombard Ukrainian cities during the war, according to the Telegraph.
Russia has denied Kyiv’s claims about downing the Su-34 as Moscow struggles to keep up with the surprise Ukrainian advance that has entered its eighth day.
Kyiv said that as of Wednesday, it controls about 74 settlements on Russia’s western border, seizing about 400 square miles of enemy soil in an incursion whose goal remains unknown.
Experts have speculated that Ukraine is making a tactical gambit to force Russia to relocate its soldiers on the front lines in Donbas, where the Kremlin has been making slow but significant gains.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the incursion as nothing more than Ukraine’s attempts to gain leverage over possible future peace talks, vowing to “kick out” the Kyiv troops from his nation.
