Small Russian assault convoy gets destroyed. Setpove, Donetsk region near Avdiivka

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1. That was a massacre!
   Keep going Ukraine!

2. There’s another video of those from the opposite direction but closer.

3. Damn, was that a bradly? The high firerate and ability to penetrate light armor would speak for that.

4. https://i.imgur.com/gvgoLJz.png

5. OK seems these were 4x BTR 82A with a 3 cm turret; regular for such an assault, the Russian army is using BMPs combined with one or two MBTs or only BMPs. BTR82A are too light armored for such an assault and as the Russian army has fast learned at begin of the war. So why the hell they have changed again and are using BTRs now? Do they have no BMPs left in and around Adiivka?

   First BTR hit a big AT mine/packed AT mines, the whole BTR is flying for few meters through the air (no one has left this BTR after the hit). The second drove next to the first BTR into the same AT mines line and looses a wheel (nice flying wheel, crew was able to escape), the third was just behind, seems got damaged, it has not moved after the AT mine explosion of the second BTR (or the crew decided not to move anymore as expecting to stand now in the middle of the mine field). Little bit later, the third is finished, I say, it is finished by an ATGM hit. In the meanwhile, the fourth has turned around and tries to escape, while artillery is shelling it. Seems on the way back, it just left the tracks…and there is an explosion under the BTR, so also has sucessfully found and “destroyed” an AT mine.

   In this war, the anti tank mines are really ruling the war. The AT mine is the “god” on this battlefield, called Ukraine.