Ukrainian soldier shooting out the window at Russian infantry storming his building in Vuhledar, Donetsk region. 72nd Mechanized Brigade [Sept 2024]



by SmokingBlackSeaFleet

45 comments

  8. So the next step would be him leaving his position and going searching right… Arguably one of the most terrifying aspect of a battle imo.

  9. Damn, pretty wild footage. Haven’t seen anything like this and I’ve been on the sub since the good ‘ol Syrian days (Halluh akkabar, spray and pray).

  10. Wonder if he has friendlies blocking the stairwells. So chilling seeing the enemy run into the building he is on top of. Good chance one of them is probably not leaving the building alive.

  12. Hands down some of the most interesting piece of footage.

    To actually see a defending soldier in a highrise building, shooting down at assaulting soldiers barely running past his killing shots….. this could be straight out of Stalingrad or outskirts of Berlin….

    Looks like one assaulting soldier even got impacted by an explosive during his rush….

    Guy shooting down from a highrise window….. surreal

  13. The individual version of the “short attack” by that last Russian.

    I wonder if the POV Ukrainian didn’t see him earlier due to his hyperfocus on the farther away Russian.

    There was also a gust of smoke that somewhat covered his approach around 0:08.

  20. Kind of shocked the Russians don’t have some kind of long range shooter to take out the guy in the window. He basically had a ton of free shots at them it seemed.

  21. That is a crazy angle to be shot from. Imagine bullets just coming down like rain.

  22. **The elite 72nd Mechanized Brigade named after the** **Black Zaporozhians**
    Motto: Ukraine or death!

    In 2014, the brigade participated in the [Ukrainian-Russian war in Donbas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)) as part of the so-called [Anti-Terrorist Operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Terrorist_Operation_Zone_(Ukraine)). In July 2014 In the year, units of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, 1st and 2nd Battalions, were surrounded by pro-Russian forces near the Izvaryne, Sverdlovsk, Chervonopartizansk checkpoint in the Luhansk region, in the Azov region, and, in the winter of 2016, near [Avdiivka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avdiivka) in the industrial zone. In August 2017, the brigade received an honorary title after the military formation of the [Ukrainian People’s Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic), the Black [Zaporozhian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhian_Cossacks) Cavalry Regiment.

    The brigade is extensively involved in the [Russian invasion of Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine) participating in battles in the [Kyiv Oblast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Oblast) and in the [Donbas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Donbas_(2022)). In January and February 2023, the 11th and 12th months of Russia’s wider on Ukraine, the Ukrainian army’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade defeated a Russian force twice its size outside Vuhledar, a fortress town in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. They defeated the 155th Brigade in February 2023, destroying several columns of Russian tanks and effectively rendered the 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Federation incapable of fighting, which attacked Pavlivka, near Vuhledar.

    But after 20 months in Vuhledar, the 2,000-person 72nd Mechanized is surely *tired*—and the Russians kept surrounding the city in a pincir and extensive meat assaults. Having tried and failed for nearly two years to force the Ukrainian brigade out of Vuhledar, the Russian 40th Marine Brigade and other brigades and regiments bypassed it and cut it off.

    This footage is from of the last days of the defence of Vuhledar, where the surrounded Ukrainian soldiers kept defending for weeks with their logistics cut off, and repeated Russian aviation dropping bombs on them, eventually due to being surrounded they used armored vehicles and managed to retreat from the surrounded city alive.

    The 72nd Mechanized Brigade achieved a rare feat: defending the same front-line town for nearly two years against a consistently larger enemy force.

  30. Jesus imagine being that Russian guy. Booking it into a building filled with enemies while being shot at lol

  31. Well as the defender it’s easier to defend a position than it is to attack. He has to come up to you. You can camp and wait…or they could flush you out as well. Urban warfare sounds terrible. Either way I’d be shitting bricks 🧱

  34. Might have just been my eyes but it looked like there were bullet impacts by his window? If so – try your damnedest to not pop out from that window again. Intense.

  38. This is when you start praying and making sure you have frags before holding an angle on the stairs. I hope this dude had a sizeable element with him to defend that position

  39. looks like the second guy at the back got hit by an RPG or mortar round, big flash.

    lucky the Ukrainian wasn’t being strafed as he was hanging out of the window

  40. This is how most of my Tarkov games go and then I gotta deal with the guy camping at the bottom of the stairs the rest of the game.

  43. This is me in PUBG, having the high ground with full set of gear and still not hitting shit – just waiting that better player coming up to finish me.

    That being said, kudos to that brave soldier. I hope he gave hell to them all

  45. Hope the Ukraine soldier was able to hold his own, repel the attack, or at least get out of there.

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