19 Feb: FOOTAGE: Russians GET DEMOLISHED AND FLEE | War in Ukraine Explained

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I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the three hundred and sixty first day of the war.

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Day 361: February 19

Near Vuhledar, Russian command decided to take a pause and switched to artillery fire. Simultaneously a lot of reports started coming in from the Russian side, where Russian commanders basically said that Vuhledar must be leveled with the ground or the town will not be taken. In order to achieve this goal, they started using not only regular artillery and aviation but also thermobaric artillery. This turned out to be not a very good solution for the Ukrainians because just sitting under artillery fire would mean slowly incurring losses and letting the Russians destroy their defenses. That is why the Ukrainians developed a new plan.

First of all, the Ukrainians relocated an additional artillery brigade towards Vuhledar in order to boost their counterbattery efforts. This very quickly brought results, as footage appeared of a destroyed Russian thermobaric artillery system TOS-1. TOS-1 is extremely vulnerable to counterbattery fire because its range is only around 4 km. This means that they need to get really close to Vuhledar and expose themselves.

The second part of the Ukrainian plan was to develop their counterattack further and, preferably, chase the Russians from the northern bank of the river. This helps the Ukrainians to achieve two things: firstly, they are pushing Russian thermobaric artillery away from Vuhledar itself, and secondly, they are forcing the Russians to disperse their artillery fire by holding many more positions in the region where they threaten Russian forces. In order to carry out this counterattack, the Ukrainians reinforced Vuhledar with multiple assault units from some of the most capable brigades in Ukraine and gave them several tanks.

As a result, Russian forces got completely decimated and lost not only the approaches to the eastern hamlet but also the whole residential area and the hills between Vuhledar and Mykilske, and this is how it happened. The Ukrainians took advantage of the increased density of Ukrainian artillery in the region and conducted an extensive but very concentrated artillery preparation. Then they launched into the battle several tanks that broke through the enemy defense and cleared the way for the assault units behind and pushed the Russians all the way back to the residential area near the river. After that, the process was repeated, and the Russians had to retreat to the eastern part of this residential area.

The next day, the Russians attempted to conduct a counterattack, but judging by the released footage of this battle, the Ukrainians were waiting for it. The Russians tried to use the same tactic and assaulted the Ukrainians with tanks, but due to concentrated artillery fire, they were quickly destroyed, and everything went sideways. Some assault units stepped back while others continued to carry out the mission. Those who continued the mission found themselves in an extremely difficult situation because they acted with no cover from the other groups and also without artillery support. The Russians sustained very high losses in killed and wounded, and these losses increased even more when they tried to save their wounded. Very often, for each wounded, they had 2-3 people trying to save him, and all of them ended up dead. Many Russian analysts once again shared a devastating critique of the Russian command after witnessing what happened. If the lack of cover from the second group can be explained by the fact that some units retreated after the tanks got immediately destroyed and showed very poor morale of Russian soldiers, then the lack of artillery cover only shows a lack of competence and organization.