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STARTLING footage has emerged showing Ukrainian troops clearing Russian lines with grenades echoing World War 1 trench warfare.
The video shows Ukrainian forces creep up on the dug in invading forces at Soledar, taking them by surprise and forcing them out of their holes at gun point to surrender.
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Ukrainian soldiers are then seen lobbing in a number of grenades to ensure the trenches are clear of Russian troops.
The footage ends as a number of Russian soldiers are led away in handcuffs.
It comes as Russian forces stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukraine’s military said, while also exerting pressure along frontlines in the east.
Russia fired 33 missiles from multiple rocket launchers at civilian targets in Kherson in the 24 hours to early Wednesday, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in its morning report.
Russia denies targeting civilians.
Heavy fighting also persisted around the Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut, now largely in ruins, in the eastern province of Donetsk, and to its north, around the cities of Svatove and Kreminna in Luhansk province, where Ukrainian forces are trying to break Russian defensive lines.
Air raid sirens also sounded across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, officials said, though there were no reports of any missile strikes and the all-clear was later given.
Ukrainian social media reports said the nationwide alert may have been declared after Russian jets stationed in neighbouring Belarus took off, although this has not been independently verified.
Britain’s defence ministry said in its update on Ukraine that Russia had likely reinforced the Kreminna section of the frontline as it is logistically important to Moscow and has become relatively vulnerable following Ukrainian advances further west.
There is still no prospect of talks to end the war, now in its 11th month.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is vigorously pushing a 10-point peace plan that envisages Russia fully respecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity and pulling out all its troops.
KREMLIN REJECTS PEACE PLAN
But the Kremlin on Wednesday rejected the plan, reiterating its stance that Kyiv must accept Russia’s annexation – announced in September after “referendums” rejected by Ukraine and most other nations – of four Ukrainian regions: Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south.
“There can be no peace plan for Ukraine that does not take into account today’s realities regarding Russian territory, with the entry of four regions into Russia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“Plans that do not take these realities into account cannot be peaceful.”
Zelensky told parliament to remain united in the face of Russia’s invasion and praised Ukrainians for helping the West “find itself again”.
“Our national colours are today an international symbol of courage and indomitability of the whole world,” he said in the 45-minute behind-closed-doors speech.
Russian forces abandoned Kherson city last month in one of Ukraine’s most significant gains of the war.
Kherson region, located at the mouth of the Dnipro River and serving as gateway to Russian-annexed Crimea, is strategically important.
RUSSIAN SHELLING OF KHERSON
The joy of Kherson residents over the city’s liberation has quickly given way to fear amid relentless Russian shelling from the east bank of the Dnipro, and many have since fled.
Russian forces shelled the maternity wing of a hospital in Kherson, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Zelenskiy’s deputy chief of staff, said on Telegram.
No one was hurt and the staff and patients had been moved to a shelter, he added.
TV footage showed workmen replacing shattered windows with sheets of board amid the rubble of damaged brick walls. A baby’s picture hung in an empty room and beds and hospital equipment stood empty and unused.
A Russian strike killed at least 10 people and wounded 58 in Kherson last Saturday, Ukraine said.
In Wednesday’s report, Ukraine’s General Staff also reported further Russian shelling in Zaporizhzhia region and in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions of northeast Ukraine.
Yesterday, footage emerged showing a Ukrainian kamikaze drone smashing into a Russian tank.
Ukraine has been humiliating the mad tyrant in the war by wiping out much of Russia’s war machine.
The Russian death toll has surpassed 100,000, it has lost previously-captured territory and equipment has been destroyed by precise strikes.
In the new footage, a Russian armoured personnel carrier can be seen driving along a single track road in the countryside.
As the vehicle comes into sight two of the crew can be seen sitting in the open hatch.
One of them is desperately firing his gun at the drone in a bid to shoot it down.
Just at the moment of impact, the other crewman can be seen rolling over with his feet in the air.
The footage the cuts out and it’s not known what happened to those inside.
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Jon Rogers
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