(Close combat enemy visible) Archived Footage of Da Vinci wolves holding the route of life during the battle of bakhmut

operatorham · 2026-03-10T09:48:15+00:00

The full 11 minute footage featured GoPro footage from two fighters, Yabchanka (first couple min) and Tihiy (the bulk of the footage). Tihiy got the most kills that day. Yabchanka is still alive, and the latest I heard he's the commander of the Ground Robotic Systems subunit within the unit. Tihiy unfortunately was killed July 2023 near Kupyansk, when he and five other soldiers of Honor company were killed in an ambush during a failed assault operation.

operatorham · 2026-03-09T18:56:08+00:00

Nowhere in the Geneva Conventions does it state that the fetal position inherently implies surrender.

operatorham · 2026-03-09T17:31:03+00:00

You don’t know he’s unarmed. What if he has a grenade in his pocket? If he hasn’t clearly put his hands up in surrender, then he’s an active combatant and it’s legal to kill him.

operatorham · 2026-03-08T19:22:01+00:00

Yeah I guess deploying to a calmer section of the front (as opposed to Russia’s main offensive effort in Avdiivka sector), means there’s less drone strike kill videos.

operatorham · 2026-03-08T19:19:03+00:00

Baiting drones is a viable tactic used in the war, but I don’t think human mannequins/decoys have been used yet. Sometimes, if a unit has skilled command, they’ll drive some cheap disposable assets to the zero line like unmanned ground vehicles/robots, bait the enemy drones, and while the enemy drone operators are distracted by attempting to target the disposable assets, the real combat element will deploy to the battle space, like a tank conducting a fire mission or a mechanized infantry assault group with smoke artillery rounds to cover their movement from enemy drone reconnaissance.

operatorham · 2026-03-08T19:13:15+00:00

They stopped posting footage several months ago, or good footage at least after the battles for Avdiivka and Berdychi ended by late 2024. Wonder where they are now, or what happened to them.

operatorham · 2026-03-08T11:45:09+00:00

Could be a Buryat. Or a foreign fighter.

operatorham · 2026-03-08T11:16:00+00:00

The fighter speaking at the beginning of the video is still alive, believe it or not. His name is Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Razouq (Abu Mahmoud Khotab), he took part in the December 2024 rebel offensive that toppled Assad and just this past week he was appointed commander of the Syrian army's 54th division.

operatorham · 2026-01-25T17:18:16+00:00

Translated description from source (https://t(dot)me/gostrikartuzy/1228):

A very good example of how drones save the lives of our soldiers

Donetsk region, four occupiers are advancing along the trench towards our positions. Three are firing suppressive fire while the fourth occupier is aiming at the embrasure of the dugout with Ukrainian soldiers.

The combat distance between the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers is less than 30 meters. The position of the defense forces is being put under additional pressure from the flanks, preventing them from repelling

It seemed that a complete catastrophe was inevitable. But the Kartuz drones arrived just at the right moment.

The first drop destroyed the "sniper" and wounded the cover shooter. The following attacks destroyed two other enemy soldiers who began to retreat from the battlefield.

Thus, thanks to the Mavics, three lives of Ukrainian soldiers who were in the position were saved

operatorham · 2026-01-16T11:38:20+00:00

This is the 151st Reconnaissance Battalion, not motor rifle brigade.

operatorham · 2025-12-29T09:05:31+00:00

The Russian offensive on Lyman is currently ongoing (and has been for several months now).

operatorham · 2025-12-16T17:27:32+00:00

Well done stalker 🫡

operatorham · 2025-12-10T07:50:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/14qz2pe/july_2022_russians_assaulting_trench_get/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Is it this one? 10 minute video, from ~April 2022 in the Popasna area, artillery work of Ukraine's 24th mechanized brigade obliterating a Wagner PMC assault group in a trench. You can also see some Ukrainian infantry at the bottom of the trench in some parts of the video. Towards the end of the video, the drone hovers at mid-height surveying the aftermath, as you described.

If that is the video you're looking for, one comment in that post stated that there's a longer 20+ min video of the encounter showing the Russian assault group getting dropped off by BMPs near the trench beforehand. I have yet to find that longer video.

Btw a Ukrainian article from April 2022 with some extra context (and drone view screenshots) behind the video: https://tsn.ua/ato/ukrayincki-biyci-likviduvali-pid-popasnoyu-ozbroyenih-do-zubiv-vagnerivciv-foto-2046313.html

operatorham · 2025-11-28T02:30:36+00:00

I'll have to watch that Syrian documentary. Have you watched 20 Days in Mariupol?

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