This is the moment Ukrainian troops driving a US-supplied armoured vehicle mowed down multiple Russian soldiers.
In the footage, taken from a nearby drone, a Stryker infantry carrier can be seen driving across the snowy landscape of the Kursk battlefield before it makes a sharp turn and starts speeding towards a soldier.
The video then abruptly cuts just before the 16-ton vehicle hits the soldier.
Other clips show the infantry carrier, which has a top speed of 60mph, chasing and knocking down other soldiers on the battlefield.
According to the Ukrainian troops the Stryker’s mounted machine gun had no more ammunition during the clash with Putin’s forces.
Although one crew member reportedly used a rifle to fire at the soldiers.
It has not been specified where the incident occurred in Kursk and why the Russians encountered the vehicle in the open.
In words reported by the Daily Telegraph, war correspondent David Axe claimed that the troops could have been separated from Russian forces during the Ukrainian counteroffensive into Kursk on Sunday.
In the footage, taken from a nearby drone, a Stryker infantry carrier can be seen driving across the snowy landscape of the Kursk battlefield before it makes a sharp turn and starts speeding towards a soldier
Other clips show the infantry carrier, which has a top speed of 60mph, chasing and knocking down other soldiers on the battlefield
A Stryker armored fighting vehicle similar to the one used by Ukraine in Kursk. Footage shows Ukrainian troops mowing down Russian soldiers while driving the US-supplied vehicle
Mr Axe said: ‘That kind of confused fighting has characterised the battle for Kursk.’
Yesterday, Ukraine said it was conducting new offensive operations’ and it had carried out a ‘high-precision strike’ on a Russian marine brigade’s command centre near the village of Belaya.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed that Ukraine’s advance had been thwarted.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky claimed that 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in attempts to repel Ukraine’s advances in Kursk since August.
‘During the Kursk operation, the enemy has already lost 38,000 of their soldiers in this direction alone, with nearly 15,000 of these losses being irreversible,’ Zelensky said in his nightly video address, though the figures could not be independently verified.
Ukraine launched a mass incursion into the Kursk region last summer and has seized chunks of territory, though Russia’s military claims to have recaptured much of that.
After a period of relative deadlock, Kyiv’s forces mounted a renewed offensive in the region on Sunday with the head of the Ukrainian President’s office Andriy Yermak declaring: ‘Russia is getting what it deserves’ in Kursk.
Russia’s defence ministry acknowledged that Ukrainian troops had conducted an assault around the town of Berdin with several tanks – supposedly including British Challengers – a mine-clearing truck and 12 armoured combat vehicles.
A destroyed Russian tank sits on a roadside near the town of Sudzha, Russia, in the Kursk region
A soldier walks in a ruined central market close to the frontline in Ukraine
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky
But yesterday, Moscow and Russian war blogging channels reported that the Ukrainian assault on Berdin had been foiled and the Ukrainian units there destroyed, though cited no evidence.
Ukraine’s fresh assault comes with both sides seeking to strengthen their negotiating hand ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20 – just over one month shy of the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office is widely expected to precipitate a push for a ceasefire, with the soon-to-be president and key members of his staff having alluded to a plan to strong-arm both sides into a peace deal.
Zelensky said last year the Kursk operation had boosted Kyiv’s ‘exchange fund’ – its negotiating position on swapping prisoners of war – and diverted tens of thousands of Russian troops away from the eastern front.
US officials have also confirmed the occupation of Kursk as vital ahead of possible ceasefire negotiations to ensure Ukraine has ‘the strongest possible hand to play’.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
