Footage shared by Ukrainian paratroopers appears to show a US-supplied Stryker armored vehicle running over Russian soldiers in Kursk after running out of ammunition.
New footage shared by Ukrainian paratroopers appears to show soldiers in a U.S.-supplied Stryker armored vehicle running over Russian fighters after running out of ammunition.The brief video, shared by the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces on messaging app Telegram Monday, purports to show Kyiv troops chasing down Russian soldiers in the western Russian Kurs k region.Newsweek could not independently verify the clip, and has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.
Russia has been battling Ukraine in Kursk since August 2024, when Kyiv launched a surprise cross-border incursion into Russian soil. Ukraine still controls roughly half of the territory it seized in the late summer, although Moscow has been battling to peel back Kyiv's grip across the border. Moscow has deployed North Korean fighters in the Kursk region in recent months, drawing international attention to the area where foreign troops crossed into Russia for the first time since World War II. On Sunday, Russia's Defense Ministry and a cohort of the country's influential military bloggers said Ukraine had launched renewed operations northeast of the Kursk border town of Sudzha, which Kyiv captured early on in August. Several senior Kyiv officials teased a fresh offensive, but Ukraine's military has not officially reported a new concerted push in Kursk. The Ukrainian military said the footage showed soldiers in the country's 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade in a Stryker armored vehicle operating in an unspecified area of Kursk. It is not clear when the video was filmed. The paratroopers ran out of ammunition 'after heavy fighting,' the military said. Russian forces were 'right next to them and posed a danger,' according to the statement. The Stryker crew in the video 'chases the enemy across the field and crushes the Russians with their armor and wheels,' Kyiv's airborne forces sai
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