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Frontline footage from the war in Ukraine captured by Ukrainian soldiers shows a squad assaulting a dugout defended by Russian soldiers. Amid confused fighting in the dense undergrowth, one of the men shouts a warning to his comrade “grenade!”
A loud bang can be heard shortly afterwards as the grenade detonated but the Ukrainian unit appears unharmed.
One of the soldiers heads back towards the Russian position and sprays the shelter with gunfire.
The footage suggests that the grenade thrown by the Russian soldiers landed back in the dugout after hitting a tree.
In recent weeks, Russia has unleashed a wave of missile and drone strikes, hitting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and forcing power cuts in Kyiv and other places, officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday the attacks “will not break us”.
“To hear the enemy’s anthem on our land is scarier than the enemy’s rockets in our sky. We are not afraid of the dark,” he said in a video address.
Ukrainian officials have said tough terrain and bad weather have made Ukraine’s advances in Kherson and the east slower than its swift pushback of Russian forces in the northeast last month and Russia’s hasty retreat from Kyiv early in the war.
Early on Friday, the Ukrainian military provided a summary of battlefield action in Kherson, where Ukrainian and Russian forces have been preparing for weeks for what could be one of the most consequential battles of the war.
The Ukrainian military said in a Facebook post that its forces in Kherson had killed 44 Russian servicemen in 24 hours, and destroyed an ammunition depot and a hangar with equipment.
However, Ukrainian officials have said tough terrain and bad weather had held up their main advance in Kherson.
On Thursday, a close ally of Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, said 23 of his soldiers had been killed and 58 wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack this week in Kherson.
After the attack, Chechen forces killed about 70 Ukrainians, he said.
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