The new recruits of the 3rd Assault Brigade are preparing for a long-anticipated counteroffensive
“Assault units are going to be the first ones to liberate our citizens, so I want to be part of it,” she explained. As for the counteroffensive, she said: “I can’t wait. I am excited.”
Darwin took part in a raid behind Russian lines just over a week ago, to disrupt supply routes in woodland south of Bakhmut. Video footage from a camera mounted on his helmet showed an intense exchange of gunfire among the trees that ended with images of Russians dead in the trenches they had been defending.
The brigade has US-made M113 armoured vehicles like the one in use on Wednesday, which are a generation older than the Bradley infantry fighting vehicles being reserved for the counteroffensive, along with donated western tanks. The first battalion’s assault rifles and machine guns were all from the eastern bloc but modern and upgraded.
Some of the first battalion’s new recruits had come straight from training in the UK, but the officers here say that is not enough to prepare them for the fight they are about to face.
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