The video, shared Tuesday, includes airborne footage that approaches the armored vehicles at speed before crashing into them and abruptly cutting out.
That footage appears to be taken from the perspective of loitering munitions, otherwise known as suicide drones, as they are destroyed in the attack. In one instance showing their apparent precision, the drone appears to head directly into the open hatch of a vehicle.
The drone’s-eye-view footage is intercut with grainy video that appears to show the same explosions from a distance.
It later shows what appears to be the view from a shoulder-mounted missile launcher, before cutting to the scene of several flaming vehicles, smoke billowing out of them.
According to the Ukrainian National Guard, the video showed Ukraine’s efforts to hold off Russian troops around Avdiivka, a town to the north of the strategic city of Donetsk.
It said that Ukraine’s General Staff had reported its forces holding off several Russian assaults in the area.
Ukraine’s National Guard said that Russia had deployed repeated artillery bombardment in the area — something that ISW noted was frustrated by increasing difficulties in the Russian munitions supply line.
Both the Ukrainian and Russian side have made extensive use of suicide drones, with Iran-made Shahed-136 drones powering much of Russia’s bombardment of civilian areas and energy infrastructure.
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