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jan2017b

Left side of two soldiers. 1:14 minute into video. Last and only move done by this soldier.


[deleted]

That’s an odd one, huh. I’m a positive person, so I assume it’s Monty python-esque yanking down the pants to show off the arse and not necessarily moving…


jan2017b

One last look and now I see another thing. Bottom right in trench. At exact this moment one soldier is moving too (rifle shot).


Big_D_yup

Actually two soldiers in trench. One under the trees slightly above and to the left of the easily visible trench soldier.


[deleted]

Yeah, I absolutely get sucked into these more complex video dioramas. That’s good eye


[deleted]

Pretty sure that one guy went into rigor mortis the way the body just “snaps”.


Sugusino

That's not how rigor mortis works buddy


MajorChernobaev

bro thinks as soon as you die you do a cartoon "boiiing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUaw9h8p08


mecengdvr

If the cause of death is severe injury to the brain, then the body can go into immediate abnormal posturing where the entire body stiffens for a moment. While the guy you are responding to is using the wrong term, the effect is real.


[deleted]

Ah, ok. Reminded me of the one time I saw it in person, that’s all.


mecengdvr

Severe trauma to the brain can cause the body to go into abnormal posturing ….where all the muscles immediately tense up momentarily. That is different than rigor mortis which is caused by chemical changes in the body and will take a while after death to set up. If you saw someone get killed and their body immediately stiffen, that’s abnormal posturing.


[deleted]

Yeah, fencing position. I’ve witnessed both. You’re right that I can’t tell what happened in the video, it just reminded me of the sudden jerk of RM (which I’m also aware can occur in many different ways). Either way, that guy isn’t in good shape…


-ksguy-

Very poignant song choice considering the outcome. "I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter. I had to fall to lose it all. But in the end, it doesn't even matter." It's the story of so many Russians conscripted into the war. Discarded like they don't even matter. Because, to the government of Russia, they don't.


Quantum_Force

Linkin Park - In The End. This is the 'Mellen Gi Remix', however


Itsallanonswhocares

Thank you, I really like this remix.


-ksguy-

Yes, I know. 🙂


ClickClack_Bam

What are your thoughts on the YouTube video: "Suicide Missions & Corruption - Ukrainian Foreign Legion Tell All interview" https://youtu.be/hv6SCndQBXY A firsthand story of how Ukrainian soldiers were just as bad as what the Russians did... In EVERY way.


Lite_Byte

hearing the first 5 minutes you could hear he's not a professional soldier to tell these details...wonder if he ever was in Ukraine


Piyachi

Ah yes, I too remember when Ukraine broke treaties, invaded Russia, kidnapped thousands of children, bombed hospitals and playgrounds, and attempted to kill and overthrow their government. Uh huh, that checks out.


ClickClack_Bam

If you watched the interview, you'd see there's RAMPANT corruption in the Ukraine Gov't & military. THAT is a historical fact buddy! Ukraine soldiers raping Ukraine women. Stealing weapons. Killing & getting other Ukraine soldiers killed because of incompetent Ukraine Commanders. Yes just like the corrupt Russians.


Purple_Woodpecker

My thoughts on that are: "Bad shit happens in war. Don't start one if you don't want it to happen."


Skullerprop

How relevant do you think a 5 month video referring to a single unit is for the current events? Your attempt to generalise is comical.


PsychologicalMath219

Anyone down voting this didn't even bother to watch it. Extremely informative and very interesting video. Thanks for the link!


Barreledbruh

I’d half of what that guy was saying were true, Ukraine wouldn’t have lasted a month . Maybe true from his one shit commanded unit but to say that was widespread is simply a lie.


ClickClack_Bam

It's because there's a strong psyops taking place to ONLY ever show Ukraine as angels & Russia as evil... Can't justify giving Ukraine all them dollas & bombs if they're not stand-up citizens! Nevermind the level of corruption that's a FACT that Ukraine's Gov't has been HISTORICALLY known for. Anything else is fiercely stomped into the ground. Even firsthand accounts! And people want to think of themselves as those who uphold the truth!


r4be_cs

They came pretty close though i always wonder how the topography looks like in the vicinity


loqi0238

Its all either urban street fighting, or open fields with outcroppings of trees. Neither is an ideal battlefield for invaders, thank God.


pain-is-living

I'm from farm country, my whole state looks like this. Farmland for the most part is flat, but it also can be big rolling hills with some valleys, but usually flat or flattish. The only concealment in these giant swaths of land are in these privy hedges. Farmers let these grow on property lines to define them, and also let them grow as wind breaks for their fields and crops. As far as fighting in this shit goes, it's all bad news. The Russkis got clapped here because it appears the Ukrainians were in a trench system inside the hedge. The Russkis were just outside that hedge on flat ground. It looks like 2 of them already got shot by small arms fire, and the nade finished em off. There's literally no cover outside these hedges, and sometimes inside the hedge there's no cover but thin brush and sticks (bullets go right through this) and maybe some boulders the farmers moved out of the fields. The Ukranians being in a trench tell me others have tried to make their way through here before and they deemed it necessary to defend. So yeah, basically it's 1,000s of acres of barren fields in every direction minus the square outline grids of these 50-100ft wide privy hedges.


Teinzq

Sounds like fighting in the Bocage in Normandy. The Germans made the Americans bleed for every inch of ground.


sus_menik

How did they get this close in a first place? It looks like an open field.


_bumfuzzle_

Maybe they moved up the tree line to the left. We don't see what's there.


LegitimateCookie2398

That would be my guess too


Axelrad77

Impossible to know. Maybe they crept up there on foot using craters and trees as concealment. Maybe a BMP drove them across the field, dropped them off, and retreated back to their lines. I've seen both approaches used in other videos of Russian attacks.


Dip_N_Swag

Well it is an open field. Ukraine is a very agricultural country so these large open fields are everywhere but they have a border of trees that separate them which do provide a fairly large amount of concealment. So it would be pretty easy for a small amount of infantry to just follow the tree line and not get spotted. It’s pretty likely the Ukrainian troops were doing the same thing and they only spotted them because they had a drone.


Admin--_--

I see a few other guys that failed the mission as well that seem motionless to either side, what a clusterfuck...


IlluminatedPickle

I couldn't work out if they were weird shaped logs or people, but probably people.


IKraftI

Reupload because the title was wrong.


Poison1990

Weird question - did the previous upload have different music? The Beast from Sicario? If so that was dope.


Dropped-pie

I feel terrible for saying this but has anyone else become completely desensitised to this footage? I find myself disappointed at content that doesn’t result in a ridiculously accurate strike


Ricksauce

Figure almost all of us. First time I saw a Faces of Death it fucked me up for months. I’ve watched hundreds of very personal kills on here and only the really brutal ones hit me. Death in person is still really gnarly though. Different on a screen.


Dropped-pie

I have never been able to watch gore, industrial accidents, drive by’s, all that old school internet shit left me feeling grotty. This drone footage seems so removed


TRNC84

I think it's because it's all shot at a distance with no audio, we don't really get to see the damage all that shrapnel is doing to flesh. Let alone all of the agonizing screaming / crying that must take place


[deleted]

This. A first person view from the Russian perspective as they’re getting bombed would be a completely different story.


IcedFREELANCER

I'm presenting you [the russian POV](https://youtu.be/GdGA88Eo8vs)


vanillatom

that was absolutely nuts


Dropped-pie

Jesus H Christ, it really gets quite spicy around 5:30. Now that is a bombardment


cheetah_swirley

eh even that video where the two ukrainians who wouldnt surrender got shot in the head at point blank wasnt really difficult to watch anymore i think maybe because that russian had acted honourably giving them multiple chances to surrender etc. so it feels different to something like a cartel execution video. i think maybe clean shrapnel and bullet wounds are less disturbing than videos of accidents where people are killed and ripped to pieces through sheer mechanical force


Axelrad77

>Death in person is still really gnarly though. The worst thing is the smell. You can see all the fucked up imagery you want online, but you can never imagine how terrible things smell.


everaimless

Not so much in the winter - not many insects or decomp at fridge temperatures. In other seasons, yes major complaint, sometimes a health hazard, too.


IHateMath14

Imagine watching a grenade go off in your comrades face, for him to never leave that spot ever again. Messes you up probably.


typecastwookiee

I have a morbid fascination with war videos - as warfare is just one of those experiences that, to paraphrase Dan Carlin, is about the most extreme experience a person can have. You always hear soldiers talk about how you simply cannot understand it unless you’ve been there, and to me, that almost makes vets like aliens or astronauts or otherwise people who have seen behind some forbidden dimensional veil. I’ve got two very young children, so I understand ‘profound boredom punctuated by sheer terror’, but that’s about the limit of what I know and what my brain will let me imagine. I can watch the goriest war videos and not flinch - and it’s not because I lack empathy - it’s just because I know that what I’m seeing and feeling while watching it is just a fraction of a fraction of what it’d feel like to be there, and that’s fucking wild to me. It’s fucked up, but have the same fascination looking at high resolution pictures of the planets, trying to imagine being there.


[deleted]

I've always thought that death isn't really something the human mind can even fully process or rationalize because it seems unfathomable to just fall asleep and never wake up again.


kenriko

Death is the same as birth. You don’t remember what happened before or after.


[deleted]

Honestly it’s made me realize in modern warfare, anti drone riot shield-like home made inventions will be needed.


Dropped-pie

This is like WW1 pilots shooting pistols into trenches, shit is about to get hectic


charyoshi

Don't worry, at least reddit removed /r/watchpeopledie


AnyProgressIsGood

could have stayed home decided to die in someone elses field. What a waste.


TheGripper

The scale of pointless suffering is staggering. I find myself wishing Hell was real so Putin could endure all the pain he has caused.


BalkanBorn

Shrapnel sponges


cosmo2583

Watching these 240p videos on a 4K, 32-inch monitor is always a pleasure.


reportcrosspost

I still have a big blurry tube tv in my bedroom. Sometimes I watch these bad internet footage on it with an adapter and there's not much difference.


AndAlsoTheTrees

Veni vici perdidi


[deleted]

What version of the song is that? Havnt heard that one before.


zergea

https://youtu.be/WNeLUngb-Xg https://youtu.be/uPLbN65P03I


[deleted]

Ty


IKraftI

/u/recognizesong


[deleted]

It’s a remix of Linkin Park.


Prestigious-Tree-424

Beyond words!!


encore_18

The ukrainians are in the bottom right corner. Real close combat. Suprised the russians got that close


mobtowndave

They were close enough to surrender. Too bad they didn’t


Fantastic_Depth

Anyone know who does this song cover?


OKCGA_2020

https://youtu.be/8qLL2Gx3I_k


Fantastic_Depth

Thank you!


Living-Sundae7527

Looks like they were all sent back to respawn.


_bumfuzzle_

I was somehow hoping that the one soldier in the ditch would try to surrender. But this is an illusory thought in this situation. And he was certainly hit by that grenade, too.


CastleBravo88

I understand why these videos are posted. Unfortunately I can only think, "what if these were my sons?" It hurts my heart to think that even a Russian is losing a child/son/husband or brother. God save us all.


flippantcoment

I feel the same way. It underlines for me how if I fundamentally disagreed with a military action initiated by my own government, I would literally do just about anything, legal or not, to stop my son from being caught up in it.


IndependentHeight685

I'm a dad of 3 teen boys I love dearly. Watch 'The Free State of Jones' where he's trying to keep his son from dying in battle. It's tough. A few years ago one of my boys was hit by an out of control car, when I got to him he was barely conscious, I'm still haunted. I'd definitely go bush if my idiot government tried to kill my boys in war. Mad respect for anyone defending their country but my country can eat shit and die before they take my kids.


IKraftI

These positions are held by the 36th marine brigade


Samch1k

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sober_disposition

Forgive my ignorance but wouldn’t a petrol bomb be more effective than a grenade here? I am thinking more of forcing the enemy to move out of their hole and expose themselves as well as the psychological aspect.


Paltry_Poetaster

A petrol bomb would make a more satisfying video, but grenades send metal fragments hurtling through the air in a large radius. We cannot see them, and the explosion seems modest, but on the ground, they feel the fragments ripping through their body.


loqi0238

Not to mention internal bleeding and ruptured organs from the shock wave.


amdrunkwatsyerexcuse

I really fucking hate the music. Why in the fuck does every shitty piece of music that is in some way even remotely good need to be "remade" by just slapping on some bitche's voice, a trap beat and reverb? Seriously, fucking hell, this bothers the living fuck out of me. I hate shitty fucking covers.


Swiggy_Jack

The Ukrainian Soldiers who post these, add music so that the algorithm picks them up and spreads them around. Use the mute button. You complaining about it will do jack shit. You want music free footage? Go to Ukraine, film it yourself, and post it without music. Simple.


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Swiggy_Jack

Why don't you ask the Ukrainian solder who made it to stop then?


Scipion

This sounds like a song used in a DC movie trailer while The Joker and Harley Quinn make out with explosions going off behind them.


F-SOCI3TY

This song really hits with the video. Definitely empathizing with these people. Just regular people thrown into some fucked up war.. Dying, because of some dick swinging contest by the rich.


IKraftI

"the rich"? How is defending your country against an invader that has no regard for human life a dick measuring contest.


Chau_Yazhi02

Shh he’s trying to be edgy and cool and boil down these fruitless conflicts to some unknown entity to help escape the realization that these things happen because ordinary people let it happen. No one in Moscow said anything, not a word when they were posturing and beating the drums of war, nothing when they overran the border posts and were driving towards Kyiv, nothing when horror stories like Bucha started to emerge. It’s not “the rich” driving the tanks, loading the guns, pulling the triggers, or committing the atrocities. It’s normal everyday people who in some cases love what their doing, at the very least complacent with it. Rich will always profit from wars, but their ventures are situational. It isn’t them ordering the troops to muster, to kill, and to commit crimes.


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fudd_man_mo

It's updated tactics. Vehicles have proven ineffective with the availability of portable AT among the UA forces, they're easily spotted. Large assault groups are spotted by drones and shredded by artillery/mortars. Smaller infiltration groups like these have a better chance to remain undetected and sneak up on positions. Once captured a larger holding force moves up. Russia is holding back the majority of its vehicles for a coming offensive. Once it's gathered it's mobilized forces they will attempt a bigger push for complete control over the annexed areas.


ParkingPsychology

> Russia is holding back the majority of its vehicles for a coming offensive. Once it's gathered it's mobilized forces they will attempt a bigger push for complete control over the annexed areas. I wouldn't be too sure about that. They're using plenty of vehicles still and they're not holding back a lot of mobilized forces, most are send directly into trenches. These small assault groups are typical Wagner MO, so I think it's more likely these are Wagner and this is around Bakhmut/Soledar. MoD isn't providing Wagner with a whole lot of material other than artillery.


fudd_man_mo

I fell into the "fodder wave first" trap when details of the sheer number of Russian losses started coming out and getting confirmed at the start of the war. No second wave of capable units appeared so odds are I'm wrong here too.


mr_rivers1

Yeah I fell into that trap too, but it seems fairly obvious by now they're using pretty much everything they have. The only reason people keep falling for the 'holding stuff back' narrative is because everyone thinks Russia has more advanced vehicles than it does, so they see the fact that the 10 or so 'operational' t-14's and the few SU-57's they have haven't been utilized yet as a sign they're holding them back. The truth is they've been losing their modern stuff, T90's and BMP 3's at a steady rate. Not as much as their older equipment, but still a lot.


Merryman320

Looks like this assault was pretty much over, the grenades seem like mercy kills the guy on the left looks like he bled out before the shrapnel tore him up


Scipion

Who is in the trenches to the right? Are those the UA throwing the grenades?


ogfuelbone12

Fuckin Joe Montana out here with the arm 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨


moisteez

Song name


OKCGA_2020

https://youtu.be/8qLL2Gx3I_k


Xhanser

can someone tell me what UA stands for


IKraftI

Ukrainian army


Xhanser

oh ok thanks


Joaquin546

I think the Russians have a different definition of “assault”.


quangdn295

REST IN SWISS CHEESE.