Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

That effectiveness is on stark display in the recent video. The submunitions cut through the trees—and sweep the videographer and his squad off their tank. The infantry, many of them injured, stumble into the snow-blanketed underbrush.
“Fuck!” one soldier exclaims. “Everything went not according to the plan.”
It’s apparent the assault is defeated. “We’re being taken apart,” a soldier moans. The traumatized Russians shoot wildly at nothing while detailing their wounds.
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It’s the mine threat that makes tank desant so common in Russia’s 23-month wider war on Ukraine. Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries heavily rely on Soviet-vintage BMP fighting vehicles that are extremely vulnerable to mines. A hit from below more often than not turns a BMP into a furnace that cooks alive the three-person crew and eight passengers.
As long ago as the 1980s, during the USSR’s disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet troops took to riding on top of their BMPs instead of inside them. That gave them a better chance of surviving mine strikes.