Last Updated on June 26, 2023
Harrowing video footage from Ukraine’s stalled counteroffensive has been posted online and purports to show members of the nation’s 47th Mechanized Brigade and their American Bradley Fighting Vehicles as they’re stuck in a minefield, taking heavy losses. The more than 11-minute video appears to have been recorded by a drone, hovering above the minefield.
The 11-minute video of the 47th Mechanized Brigade’s minefield demise shows an open space full of craters, and countless Ukrainian soldiers lying dead, dying, or severely wounded outside of their American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
For the entirety of the painstakingly brutal video, Ukrainian soldiers attempt to rescue their comrades and themselves, but often to no avail. Several times, the vehicles appear to fire flares to detonate mines and open up a makeshift road.
In one instance, a Ukrainian soldier is seen exiting his group’s Bradley and jumping directly onto a mine. His leg is blown almost completely off but, amazingly, the man immediately goes to work on himself, applying a tourniquet before crawling back into his vehicle.
It is unclear exactly how many casualties the Ukrainians suffered in the minefield, and how many of their American vehicles were destroyed.
Watch the video below. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
The most brutal minefield video I’ve ever seen.
Just Ukrainians from the 47th Brigade losing legs and Bradleys nonstop for 11 minutes.
This is the reality, but you’ve been warned. pic.twitter.com/kRleY4SVnN
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What's the media hiding? (@narrative_hole) June 26, 2023
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Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade has been widely touted as one of the nation’s finest fighting forces and received extensive training from American and NATO military personnel. They’ve also been outfitted with advanced Western weaponry and, as seen in the video, American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
According to numerous reports, the 47th Mechanized Brigade is acting as the “tip of the spear” in Ukraine’s stalled counteroffensive against the Russians, which comes after a catastrophic loss for Ukrainian forces at the city of Bakhmut, in a battle that’s been compared to a modern-day Stalingrad.
The minefield video comes on the heels of other video footage, that showed Russian forces capturing and destroying NATO-made tanks and American-made Bradleys.
It also comes as the United States continues to pledge billions of dollars to Ukraine and its President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and as public faith in the war effort, both in the West and in Ukraine, wanes.