INCREDIBLE first-person footage has captured Ukrainian troops storming Russian trenches while dodging heavy machine gun fire.
Daring soldiers from Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade sparked a brutal counteroffensive after they were deployed in a forest near Kharkiv.
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The clip, shared by Ukrainian military bloggers, shows the troops launching the raid at dawn after they were dropped from a military chopper.
Crack soldiers can be seen engaging in heated gunfights as they storm enemy positions camouflaged in the dense forest.
They raid enemy dugouts, storm through the Russian trenches and rescue wounded troops as they move towards the frontlines.
Russian troops on the other side try to thwart the Ukrainian advance using machine guns as they shower them with bullets, but daring Kyiv’s forces continue to move forward and cut off enemy lines.
A brave Ukrainian soldier can be heard saying: “If I get into the trench line, I’ll kill that machine gunner with my bare hands.”
It comes after Ukraine foiled a Russian “suicide” counterattack after troops blitzed Putin’s tanks in a major onslaught.
Just four out of 17 armoured vehicles dispatched to the frontline in Donetsk escaped the kamikaze drone attack.
Video shared online shows how Ukraine’s impressive assault drones ruthlessly blitz Putin’s troops and tanks as they try to escape.
Tanks can be seen rolling down a road in Kurakhove, Donetsk, as Ukrainian army snipers pinpoint and explode them with precision drone strikes.
Other footage shows Russian soldiers trying to escape in the nearby village of Kostyantynivka as Ukrainian fighter pilots eliminate them.
Russia has been desperately trying to regain the upper hand in Ukraine after Zelensky’s forces pushed through into enemy territory on August 6.
Some hundreds of kilometres away from Donetsk in Kursk, Kyiv launched an assault across the border from the Sumy region.
Ukraine’s drone campaign has tirelessly chipped away at Putin’s forces and kit for some two and a half years.
It has successfully held back enemy forces, obliterated vital oil stores and military supplies, blown up key bridges, destroyed naval ships and aircraft and cut down infantry.
Kyiv’s daring forces have been pushing into villages across the Russian border since August 6 amid the first-ever invasion on Russian soil since World War Two.
Russians have been scrambling to defend Ukraine‘s audacious move, which sparked a “counter-terror” operation in regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk.
Heart-stopping footage showed how brave Ukrainian troops have been gaining ground on Putin‘s land.
The clip starts with Ukraine’s special forces packed in Humvees blasting their way into Russia.
Soldiers sitting atop the armoured vehicles can be seen using rocket launchers to obliterate enemy targets.
An intense gunfight then takes place as they storm military positions across the Russian border.
Kyiv’s daring troops then raid enemy bunkers and other buildings while returning the enemies with heavy fire.
One first-person clip shows a Ukrainian soldier blasting Russians with what appears to be a lightweight machine gun mounted on top of an armoured vehicle.
Kyiv’s daring Kursk seige has so far seen hundreds of Russian troops surrendering on their own territory as a raging Putin is left scrambling to defend home ground.
NEXT TARGET: BELGOROD
Ukraine is attempting a second surge into Russia with troops eyeing the Belgorod region after smashing into Kursk.
Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the Ukrainians were trying to “break through the border”, citing Vlad’s defence ministry.
The city of Belgorod, which has a population of 340,000, is just 23 miles from the Nekhoteyevka checkpoint.
Reports vary on Telegram with another channel, Shot, claiming there was no fighting at Shebekino and Ukrainians were pushed back in Nekhoteyevka.
Shot said up to 60 soldiers and eight Ukrainian armed vehicles rolled into the border crossing but were met with heavy Russian fire.
Kyiv’s forces are attacking border checkpoints as Putin’s soldiers desperately fight back to defend their soil, reports say.
Ukraine’s surge into Kursk had already threatened to spill over into Belgorod.
Belgorod citizens were urged to take shelter just days after the surprise Kursk incursion.
Governor Gladkov wrote in a Telegram message: “The entire territory of the Belgorod region is a MISSILE DANGER.
“Go down to the basement. Stay there until you receive the signal ‘all clear missile danger.’”
Around 11,000 people were evacuated from the Krasnoyaruzhsky district in Belgorod, Russian outlet TASS reported.
On Ukraine’s side of the border, Vlad launched a major attack overnight – for the second night running – unleashing hundreds of drones and missiles.
Fifteen regions were hit and at least seven were killed.
Authorities said a hotel was blown away in the central city of Kryvyi, killing two, with two more dying in drone attacks in the embattled Zaporizhzhia in the country’s southeast.
Ukraine was also forced to intercept strikes bound for capital city Kyiv.
Fierce fighting boils on in Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s east as Vlad vies to take the high-priority Donetsk town.
It is being hotly fought over because it sits in vicinity of Ukrainian supply lines.
The Kremlin’s deadly strikes are set to keep igniting debate over whether Kyiv should be allowed to use Western weapons to strike deep within Russia, where they say attacks are being launched from.
The Sun’s Jerome Starkey inside Russia
By Jerome Starkey, Defence Editor in Russia
The Sun stepped into sovereign Russia – despite Kremlin threats to kill or convict us – to speak to ordinary Russians left stranded by their soldiers’ humiliating retreat.
Bomb blasts echoed over ruined buildings as Olga, 23, a taxi cab dispatcher, said: “I didn’t think about the war at all. I was just working constantly.
“Home, job, home. I didn’t think about anything beyond my personal life.”
All that changed on August 6 when Ukraine launched a surprise attack from neighbouring Sumy province and captured 1,300 square kilometres in Russia’s worst defeat on home soil since the end of World War Two.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky claimed the blitz was part of a master plan to help end the war.
Bomb blasts echoed over ruined buildings as Olga, 23, a taxi cab dispatcher, said: “I didn’t think about the war at all. I was just working constantly.
“Home, job, home. I didn’t think about anything beyond my personal life.”
All that changed on August 6 when Ukraine launched a surprise attack from neighbouring Sumy province and captured 1,300 square kilometres in Russia’s worst defeat on home soil since the end of World War Two.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky claimed the blitz was part of a master plan to help end the war.
And he stressed that ordinary Russians must “feel” the effects of the war unleashed by tyrant Putin.
Olga said her mother and brother fled their hometown of Sudzha, the largest Russian town now under Ukrainian control.
But Olga was cut off by fighting and unable to cross town to reach them before they escaped.
We met her in a temporary shelter where Ukrainian troops were providing food and beds for civilians left behind.
She added: “I stayed because I couldn’t leave. There was no evacuation.”
A statue of Lenin in Sudzha’s main square had been severely maimed – only part of his trunk appeared to remain on the pedestal.
Behind it, the town hall’s grand facade lay shattered by artillery holes.
A blue and yellow Ukrainian flag fluttered from a makeshift flagpole.
Graffiti on the cobbles mocked Russia’s defenders for fleeing.
It said: “Russians, learn how to fight. Your conscripts are rotting in forests.”
The Russian soldiers defending Sudzha were a mixture of border guards, conscripts and Chechens from the Akhmat battalion.
One of the Sudzha’s residents cursed them for fleeing so quickly
They said: “Our defence was so bad. There weren’t any soldiers. That’s why we are here.”
Around 600 civilians still live in Sudzha from a pre-war population of 5,000, Ukrainian soldiers estimated.
They said it was hard to tell precisely as many were sheltering underground.
While we were there a man came in who had spent the last three weeks in a cellar.
The troops said it was the first time they had seen him.
Pensioner Valentina, 76, another resident in the shelter, said she had tried to forget the war since she moved to Sudzha five years ago – from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
She left to escape the fighting that was unleashed in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists broke away from Kyiv’s control.
Speaking from her dormitory bed, she said: “I never thought this war would be so big that it would come to such a little place like this.
“What is there to fight for here?”
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin said Ukraine wanted Russian territory to use as a bargaining chip in any future peace talks.
Kyiv claimed the land was a buffer zone to limit Russian attacks.
Zelensky has also stressed the importance of capturing 600 prisoners of war to swap for captured Ukrainians.
The assault has boosted morale in Ukraine and changed the narrative of the conflict after months of grinding losses in eastern Donbas.
It has also turned the tables on Moscow and shattered the slowly calcifying myth of Russia’s inevitable victory.
She left to escape the fighting that was unleashed in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists broke away from Kyiv’s control.
Speaking from her dormitory bed, she said: “I never thought this war would be so big that it would come to such a little place like this.
“What is there to fight for here?”
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin said Ukraine wanted Russian territory to use as a bargaining chip in any future peace talks.
Kyiv claimed the land was a buffer zone to limit Russian attacks.
Zelensky has also stressed the importance of capturing 600 prisoners of war to swap for captured Ukrainians.
The assault has boosted morale in Ukraine and changed the narrative of the conflict after months of grinding losses in eastern Donbas.
It has also turned the tables on Moscow and shattered the slowly calcifying myth of Russia’s inevitable victory.
