The footage ends showing fields pockmarked by shell blasts.
Zenger News obtained the footage from the 30th Independent Mechanized Brigade āKonstanty Ostrogskiā ā a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces ā on May 17.
The 30th Mechanized Brigade (30 OMBr) said (in Ukrainian): āThe occupiers tried several times to cross the Seversky Donets River near the village of Bilohorivka, but thanks to the professional work of 30 OMBr soldiers together with other law enforcement agencies of the Armed Forces, all enemy plans were thwarted.
āBurn, enemies, in hell! Your every attempt to seize Ukrainian land will end in this way!ā
Bilohorivka is located in Luhansk Oblast, most of which is currently under the control of the pro-Russian Luhansk Peopleās Republic and Russia itself.
Consequences of the defeat of Russian troops near Belogorivka during the crossing of the river Seversky Donets in May 2022. (@30brigade/Zenger)
The Siversky Donets river splits the oblast approximately in half.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is calling a āspecial military operationā to āprotect Donbassā. May 19 marks the 85th day of the invasion.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) reported that between February 24 and May 19, Russia had lost about 28,500 troops.
The AFU General Staff also said Russia had lost 1,254 tanks, 3,063 armored fighting vehicles, 595 artillery systems, 199 multiple launch rocket systems, 93 anti-aircraft systems, 203 aircraft, 167 helicopters, 2,157 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, 13 vessels, 455 unmanned aerial vehicles, 43 pieces of special equipment and 103 cruise missiles over the same period.
The update comes after Moscow claimed a strategic victory through the fall of the port city of Mariupol.
Consequences of the defeat of Russian troops near Belogorivka during the crossing of the river Seversky Donets in May 2022. (@30brigade/Zenger)
The Kremlin says more than 900 Ukrainian fighters from the Azovstal metallurgical plant have been taken to a former prison colony in a Russian-controlled part of Donetsk.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russiaās invasion of Ukraine an āabsolute failureā and said Russian leaders were afraid to acknowledge āthat catastrophic mistakes were made at the highest military and state levelā.
Elsewhere, G7 partners are set to meet in Germany on Thursday, May 19 to find a way to fix Ukraineās devastated finances.
On the ground, Ukrainian forces have retaken villages around the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, but Russian forces have advanced slowly in the east of the country.