Kharkiv region: special forces blow up a Russian convoy

SVITLANA KIZILOVA - THURSDAY, 14 APRIL 2022, 08:42

A Ukrainian Special Forces group has blown up a bridge as Russian military equipment was crossing it on its way to Izyum.

Source: Special Operations Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook

Details: The command did not specify the exact date of the start of the operation, only stating that a few days previously, additional Russian equipment was discovered in the Kharkiv region - a Tiger armoured vehicle, one KamAZ truck and three Ural trucks moving towards Izyum to reinforce a grouping of Russian forces.

Quote: "Having established the route of the enemy convoy, the Ukrainian Special Forces operatives carried out additional reconnaissance of the object most suitable for an engineered ambush. This was a bridge on the route taken by the enemy's machines. The next step was a painstaking and professional job: determining the location of the charges and calculating the required amount of TNT equivalent.

Having planted the explosives in a certain place, the Ukrainian Special Forces operatives waited for the Russian troops,  who unsuspectingly drove to meet their death. The bridge, along with the Russian equipment, was blown up according to a specific plan, destroying the occupying forces’ entire convoy.

After blowing up the bridge together with Russian convoy that was crossing it, our operatives used a UAV to confirm that the target had been hit. After that, our colleagues from the Ukrainian Defence Forces completed the mission."