The Glare of the Screen, The Mud of the Trenches: Drone Hell Meets Horse Charges in Ukraine’s Raw Combat
The screen flickers, displaying the emerald night vision or the stark daylight over shattered landscapes. We, removed by distance but connected by technology, bear witness to a conflict that defies easy categorization. This isn’t a history lesson; it’s the raw, visceral reality of the Ukraine war unfolding frame by frame. The curated combat footage raw from the frontlines reveals a brutal juxtaposition: the hyper-modernity of lethal drones operating with chilling precision against scenes that echo centuries past – Russian troops resorting to horseback charges under the omnipresent threat from above. This is the paradox of the current Ukrainian battlefield, a crucible where advanced technology forces desperate, almost anachronistic, adaptations. The videos below capture this collision, offering an unfiltered glimpse into the chaos, the innovation, and the sheer human cost along axes like Kupiansk and Pokrovsk.
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The Ubiquitous Drone Threat:Footage consistently reveals Ukrainian FPV and observation drones dominating the battlefield, particularly in the Kupiansk and Pokrovsk directions. They relentlessly target Russian armored vehicles (T-72s, BMPs), transport trucks (Urals), and dismounted infantry, often before they reach engagement range. (Video 1, Video 4)
Desperate Measures: Faced with staggering vehicle losses and the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones, Russian forces are shown resorting to improvised cavalry, using horses – and even donkeys and a camel – to transport troops and supplies to the frontlines near Pokrovsk. This starkly illustrates severe logistical breakdowns. (Video 4)
Chaos and Collapse: The intense pressure from drone attacks leads to horrifying scenes. One video captures a panicked Russian BMP crew reversing over their own dismounted soldiers in a desperate attempt to escape further strikes near Kupiansk. (Video 1)
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Ground-Level Brutality: Bodycam footage offers a different, intensely personal perspective. It plunges the viewer directly into close-combat firefights, capturing the shouts, the breathing, the immediate tactical decisions of soldiers on both sides. (Video 3)
Technological Contrasts: While Russia improvises with animals, Ukraine showcases advanced systems like ground-based attack drones operated by specialized units (Video 2) and effectively employs Western-supplied armor like Bradleys for troop support and evacuation under fire. (Video 4)
Tank Warfare Endures: Amidst the drone focus, conventional armored clashes persist. Footage highlights Ukrainian tanks, sometimes outnumbered, engaging Russian columns in ambushes and direct duels, demonstrating skill and bravery. (Video 5)
The Drone War’s Duality: While Ukrainian drone effectiveness is a recurring theme, footage also emerges from Russian perspectives, showing their use of kamikaze drones to strike Ukrainian positions, highlighting the reciprocal nature of this aerial threat. (Video 6)
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The Human Cost: Beyond tactics and technology, the footage underscores the grim reality for soldiers. Videos depict wounded Russian troops on crutches being sent towards the fighting, only to be targeted by drones as active combatants. (Video 1)
Where Silicon Meets Steppe Grass: A Battlefield Evolving in Reverse?
The combat footage raw from Ukraine paints a picture not just of destruction, but of forced, often desperate, evolution. We see the logical endpoint of precision aerial strike capability – the drone – becoming so pervasive that it renders conventional mechanized movement almost suicidal in contested areas. The Ukrainian success in leveraging drone technology, from cheap FPV kamikazes to sophisticated ground units and reconnaissance platforms, forces a stark choice upon their adversary: adapt or perish.
The Russian response, as documented near Pokrovsk, is a startling adaptation – regression. The re-emergence of cavalry, not as a ceremonial unit but as a functional necessity for frontline logistics and troop movement, is perhaps the most striking visual of this conflict’s asymmetry. It speaks volumes about the breakdown of conventional supply lines under relentless drone interdiction. While Ukrainian forces refine drone tactics and integrate Western armor, segments of the Russian military appear pushed back towards methods not seen in large-scale European warfare for over a century. This isn’t merely a technological gap; it’s a tactical chasm, forced open by the unique pressures of this drone-saturated battlefield. The question remains whether such improvisations are sustainable or merely symbols of an attritional strategy reaching its limits.
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The videos gathered here offer more than just explosions and action; they provide critical insights into the shifting dynamics of modern warfare playing out in real-time. From the lethal ballet of FPV drones dismantling armored columns to the jarring sight of soldiers on horseback navigating a 21st-century warzone, this is the unvarnished truth emerging from the fields of Ukraine. This is Combat Footage Raw. Scroll down to watch the curated highlights and see the frontline for yourself.
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INSANE FOOTAGE: Russian Reinforcement RANS OVER AND KILLS THE ENTIRE UNIT | RFU NewsRFU News — Reporting from Ukraine2,380,098 views | 49,451 | February 28 2025 19:00:29 (4,049 comments)[ Read more … ]
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Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kupiansk direction.
Here, Russians made a significant effort to deploy heavily armored units to support their offensive along the Oskil River. However, as Russian commanders sent in more and more manpower and equipment, one after the other was destroyed by Ukrainian drones, causing some Russian crews to be in such a hurry that they ran over their own soldiers in trying to escape the massacre.
The overarching goal of the Russian forces in this area is to push the Ukrainian forces beyond the Oskil River. To achieve this, Russians are trying to set conditions for an advance on both Kupiansk and Borova, by concentrating their offensive efforts around a territorial funnel at Pischane. However, these efforts have stalled, and Russian forces are attempting to reinforce the efforts of their infantry along the riverbank with armored vehicle support, hoping this will give them the firepower advantage they need to start advancing on the two towns.
Notably, Russian forces recently expanded the Pishchane funnel to the south, securing a hardened road to provide them with more stable logistics for the fighting along the riverbank. With Ukrainian positions over five kilometers away, Russian logistics remain beyond the range of most Ukrainian anti-tank guided missiles. Additionally, topographic maps show that Russian forces are advancing from higher ground, providing a significant advantage in line of sight and engagement range.
Ukrainian deep reconnaissance missions showed that Russians had been regrouping after the past failed assaults and were readying themselves for a renewed offensive effort along the funnel. The commander of a Ukrainian drone regiment reported that Russians had started conducting reconnaissance-in-force missions to detect Ukrainian positions. He reported that Russians would often fire over or through these reconnaissance groups, regardless of possible friendly fire, to engage the detected Ukrainian positions. The increased number of these operations alerted Ukrainians that Russians were planning their offensive soon, allowing them to prepare themselves in advance.
Ukrainians intensified their drone surveying to detect these reconnaissance-in-force assault groups and eliminate them before they could reach Ukrainian lines and expose Ukrainian soldiers to Russian artillery fire. Out of range of Ukrainian direct-fire equipment, this early detection allowed Ukrainians to relay the Russian positions to some of the most elite drone battalions and engage the Russian groups before they could reach the river.
Geolocated combat footage reveals how the Ukrainian kamikaze drone operators targeted Russian vehicles moving toward the river. Russians sent single tanks or armored personnel carriers through the funnel, hoping that moving in small numbers would avoid detection.
One shot shows a Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drone striking a group of bunched-up Russian soldiers dismounting from a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle. After the drone struck, footage from an observation drone shows how the crew of the Russian vehicle started to panic after the strike, trying to drive off before another drone arrived to finish the job. Unfortunately for the dismounted Russian soldiers, the crew of the BMP lost all regard for the soldiers around them, reversing and crushing several soldiers before driving off and leaving them to die.
Additional footage shows how Ukrainians targeted Ural military transport trucks as well, both with FPV drones and drone-dropped grenades, destroying all the soldiers and equipment in the unarmored vehicles. Due to the many vehicle losses, Russian commanders also sent in soldiers on foot to reinforce their efforts along the river, which were often promptly hit by drones and grenades. Lastly, footage shows that even the wounded on crutches were not spared being sent to the frontline, forcing Ukrainians to eliminate the slow-moving targets, as they continued to be armed and dangerous despite their injuries.
Overall, Russians tried to build up their forces along the river bank and launch reconnaissance-in-force operations that Ukrainian drone operators promptly dismantled. Despite finishing their reorganization, Russian commanders were apparently already short on reserves, even sending wounded soldiers to the front on crutches. The inability of the Russians to reinforce their forces near the Oskil River with armored vehicles and infantry will significantly reduce their combat capabilities and their ability to launch further assaults here, as Ukrainians have successfully prevented Russians from opening up a new avenue of advance.
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Today, there is important news from the Pokrovsk direction.
Here, desperate Russian commanders attempted to achieve a breakthrough at any cost. With Ukrainians creating a kill zone for vehicles, Russians started deploying horses, reimplementing cavalry into modern warfare. South of Pokrovsk, Russian forces are desperate to push westward, attempting to put as much distance as possible between their rear positions and the relentless Ukrainian drone operators targeting their rear. Their constant drone strikes are devastating Russian supply lines, command centers, and units moving to the contact line, severely disrupting an already weak logistical network. To counter this, the Russians aimed to seize control of the small settlements scattered across the vast open fields in the area, which would serve as launching points for further assaults westward, while denying the Ukrainians the ability to do the same in the other direction.
While frozen ground conditions technically allow Russian forces to maneuver their remaining armored vehicles more effectively, their ability to conduct large-scale mechanized assaults has been severely weakened by the staggering number of vehicle losses sustained over months of fighting. Despite the solid terrain, the battlefield dynamics remain under Ukrainian drone dominance. Russian forces have found it nearly impossible to advance without being spotted, and any attempt at rapid movement results in swift targeting by Ukrainian artillery and drones.
The regular Russian tactic of using the survivors of failed mechanized assaults to dig in along tree lines does not work with completely frozen ground, as it is too hard to dig in quickly enough before Ukrainians fully eliminate them with drones. Russian assault groups that manage to cross open terrain are often left exposed without cover and subsequently eliminated by Ukrainian drone strikes. With few alternatives, the Russian advance has been restricted mainly to the settlements in the fields, relying on spread-out buildings for cover. Several geolocated videos show the work of Ukrainian troops in dismantling the rarely available Russian vehicles. A Russian T-72B3M tank can be seen delivering soldiers to a position in a tree line, but at that very moment, two Ukrainian FPV drones can be seen already flying towards it, striking it precisely and destroying it on the spot. Another video shows how Ukrainian kamikaze drones are hunting and eliminating Russian soldiers, ATVs, armored personnel carriers, more tanks, and military trucks filled with soldiers and supplies.
A stark indication of Russian struggles has emerged in recent footage from Russian soldiers filming themselves moving to the frontline on horseback. They are seen carrying their full combat equipment, including armor vests and shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons. Another clip shows other soldiers riding horses through a village, again moving toward the front, however, with fewer weapons than the previous group. This shows that the implementation of new improvised cavalry units applies to all levels of the Russian armed forces, from highly trained personnel to the foot soldiers sent on meat waves.
Other shocking images even show the usage of donkeys and a camel to transport supplies. While these methods may partially help sustain some positions, it highlights the growing desperation, as the use of such improvised cavalry in modern warfare is an unmistakable sign that conventional Russian logistics have entirely broken down.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian mechanized units continue to operate effectively, reinforcing positions, rotating troops, and maintaining steady pressure on Russian-held settlements. Footage shows how two Russian fiber-optic-guided drones attacked a Ukrainian Kozak-2M1 armored vehicle but were unable to detonate, leaving the crew unharmed. Another video shows how two Ukrainian tanks destroyed a building in the village Sribne, where up to 10 Russians were attempting to establish a foothold. In another, a Ukrainian Bradley armored fighting vehicle successfully evacuated Ukrainian soldiers who were pinned down by opening suppressive fire and deploying a smoke screen. Overall, the ongoing battle near Pokrovsk illustrates the widening gap in military capabilities between the two sides. While Ukrainian forces maintain mobility with modern mechanized forces, Russian troops are being pushed into increasingly outdated and desperate tactics, relying more and more on animals to sustain their operations. If this trend continues, Russian attempts to advance westward will remain slow, costly, and ultimately unsustainable, while Ukrainian defenders continue to tighten their hold on the battlefield, and winning the war of attrition.
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