the 57th motorized infantry brigade. small advances followed by russian counterattacks. but most of the time they hunker down under cover and wait. translator: when we have targets, we fire fast and precise, says this gun commander whose call sign is diesel. we hit infantry tanks, vehicles, but, most of all, infantry. they re targeting the brigade s drone operators. this shows a successful strike on russian troops on the edge of bakhmut. but these eyes in the sky can fall victim to friendly fire. troops trying to shoot down their own drone. here, they heard about the brief mutiny led by wagner boss, yevgeny prigozhin, and shrugged
are there going to be any indications of low morale, of infighting that the ukrainians could exploit in the days and weeks to come? andrew, we ve been hearing that the counter offensive has had kind of probing attacks, the ukrainians exploring the strength and the spread of the russian defences. and for months we ve also been hearing kyiv asking for western weapons. and we saw those abram tanks from the us, the leopard tanks from germany and the uk also giving heavy battle tanks. to what degree in these early stages of this counteroffensive are we seeing the deployment of this western military hardware and is it making much difference on the ground? the ukrainians say it is, but that they haven t yet committed all of those weapons to the fight. these are, as you say, early stages. these are probing attacks the ukrainians are making. and also we ve had to see a lot of russian counterattacks, attempts to disrupt ukrainian preparations. so further north from here,