00:00Hello friends. What do you do in your big offensive stalls? If you're the Russian command, you pull a 1950s
00:07T-55 tank out of a museum and pray the Ukrainians don't spot you. Bad idea.
00:12Today we will see how Ukrainian artillery is tearing Ivan's relics apart in Zaporizhia and reveal more details of Operation
00:19Vivaldi.
00:19We start with a Russian propagandist disguised as a journalist who began harassing Zelensky, shouting in Russian,
00:25When will you go to Moscow? When are you going to go to Moscow? To which the president also replied
00:30in Russian,
00:31I'll go by missile. Only missiles and drones are effective for negotiating with the Russians.
00:35But they keep insisting.
00:39As this engagement shows, a single drone takes out two horde motorcycles and at least one orc.
00:46The first one decided to dive into a ditch to save his skin, but he didn't warn his buddy,
00:51who ended up getting a vigorous massage right in the middle of his back.
00:56This is very strange. Interceptor operators from the Sunstrike unit of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade
01:02encountered a Russian Molnir-type drone to which Ivan had mounted a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
01:08It's not clear what Ivan was trying to do, but a setup like that could be used to attack trenches
01:13or to shoot down other drones. We'll have to see if more units show up on the front lines to
01:19see if Ivan
01:19is actually serious about this innovation. Speaking of Russian drones, in this short video,
01:24we see how the side gunner of a Mi-8 hit helicopter from the Ukrainian Army Aviation turns an invader
01:30Gyrbara into a sieve with a few well-placed bursts from a Dillon Aero M134 V-Gatling machine gun
01:37caliber 7.62. Specifically developed to provide helicopters with a high rate of fire, heat-resistant
01:45weapon to deliver close air support for ground forces and for the aircraft's own self-defense.
01:52On the airfront, fighter bombers from the Ukrainian Air Force carried out a series of precision
01:57bomb strikes to destroy several bridges near the settlement of Polohai on the Huliaipol front,
02:03Zaporizhia region. These crossings, which traversed the Konka River south of Huliaipol,
02:09were used by Russian units to move personnel, heavy equipment, and ammunition to support offensive
02:14operations toward Orekiv. The 7th Air Assault Corps reported that the strikes significantly
02:21complicate the invaders' logistics in that sector of the front and limit the ability of Russian units
02:26to move reinforcements and maintain their supply chain. With the routes suitable for transporting
02:32heavy equipment rendered unusable, Russian forces have been forced to increase the use of motorcycles
02:37and other light-motorized vehicles, which have proven to be far more vulnerable to precision
02:42artillery strikes and Ukrainian drones patrolling the front line. Taken together, the destruction of
02:49the bridges and the subsequent systematic strikes on ammunition depots and logistical chains illustrate
02:54a phased approach. By first preventing the crossing of heavy loads over a small river that is
02:59nonetheless tactically vital in that sector, and subsequently targeting the lighter but far more
03:04exposed logistical assets that the Russians can still keep operational in the area.
03:09But the Ukrainian Air Force isn't the only one active in Huliaipol, as the 44th Artillery Brigade
03:15of the 7th Corps concurrently carried out a series of coordinated strikes against the network of
03:20Russian mobile artillery positions located both within and around this town on the southern front,
03:25in the Zaporizhia region, which has been heavily battered by the fighting in recent years.
03:31In the video, several 2A65 MST-TB, towed howitzers, and a 122mm 2S3 Akatsia self-propelled gun can be
03:41identified among the systems hit, as well as other artillery pieces, troop concentrations, forward
03:48infantry positions, and armored vehicles. In the footage, also within the same sequence, a T-50 tank
03:55surprisingly appears, from the Soviet era, a little model that entered service back in the 1950s,
04:01and that the Russians have begun using on the front lines as protected mobile artillery.
04:06In the same sector, a couple of days earlier, Ukrainian forces managed to destroy two BM-21 Grad
04:13rocket launchers that were in firing position on the highway connecting Huliaipol and Polohai.
04:19The 7th Corps reported that this offensive artillery
04:22operation is part of a broader effort aimed at curbing movements.
04:27The defenders have reported that the remains of the urban area of Huliaipol
04:32are used by Russian units as cover to mass infantry, deploy long-range artillery, set up command posts,
04:40and establish drone operator nests, which are less exposed here than in open fields.
04:45The invading forces have used the town as an advanced base, rather than simply just another
04:51disputed village on the front line, which is why the efforts to prevent the Russians from
04:55concentrating their forces within the village are fundamental to the defense of the sector.
05:01Presence of the T-55 is striking and quite revealing, given that it's a medium tank designed in the early
05:07days of the Cold War, now appearing in the middle of an artillery duel in southeastern Ukraine.
05:13It's presence highlights how Russian units in this sector have been forced to rely on old reserve
05:18armor, given that most of the more modern vehicles are being sent to other fronts.
05:24As for the results, the Ukrainian general staff reported that 10 Russian attacks were recorded
05:30in the Huliaipol sector on September 23rd, which shows that the sector remains active,
05:35but the intensity is definitely lower considering that earlier this summer,
05:38there were between 20 and 30 assaults a day.
05:44Returning to the Donetsk Front, in the disputed forested ravines north and northwest of Lyman,
05:49the 3rd Army Corps continues to carry out a methodical counteroffensive that has altered the
05:54operational landscape in northern Donetsk Oblast.
05:57Named in honor of the Four Seasons, Operation Vivaldi was launched in late May 2026,
06:03the U.S., under a strict-information blackout. Its objective is fundamentally defensive,
06:08as it seeks to break the northern pincer of the Russian offensive aimed at enclosing the
06:12fortified belt of cities formed by Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Druskivka, and Kostyantinivka.
06:17This is achieved by clearing Russian infiltration routes, destroying logistics hubs, and forcing
06:21invading units to fall back toward the Chonyi-Zerebets river. Independent assessments,
06:25including those from the Institute for the Study of War, describe the outcome as the complete
06:28dismantling of the encirclement planned by Russia. What makes Operation Vivaldi stand out isn't just
06:35the reclaimed territory but the methods employed. Heavy bomber drones are transporting kamikaze ground
06:47drones more than 10 kilometers behind Russian lines, marking the first combat use of such systems in
06:53history. Since then, unmanned ground systems have cleared over 30 kilometers of routes toward Chandri
07:00Holov in just two nights. This is a task that would have required nearly a week of work for two
07:07combat
07:07engineer companies while also being exposed to enemy fire. Reconnaissance missions located the Russian
07:14command nodes and the robots proceeded to attack them, forcing the enemy to divert troops to protect
07:20their headquarters instead of holding the front line. Operation Vivaldi is not a lightning raid.
07:26It's about a sustained campaign of isolation, precision strikes, and limited yet meticulously prepared
07:33assaults which has already forced three Russian armies to expend combat power on defensive operations
07:38that they had reserved for attacking the belt of fortified cities. The music keeps playing.
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