Wagner PMC using a Kornet ATGM with a 9M133F-2 thermobaric warhead against Ukrainian troops in the Vershyna area near the Vuhlehirsʹka Tes power plant. The small thermobaric round equals 22lbs of TNT and has a kill radius of about 60 meters. A thermobaric weapon is a type of explosive that utilizes oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense, high-temperature explosion, and in practice the blast wave such a weapon produces is typically significantly longer in duration than a conventional condensed explosive.
I'm not sure why the Ukrainian troops were high-lining across the top of the ridge like that in broad daylight, but that's a no-no we learned in the early days of infantry school, so one would assume those troops were poorly trained or poorly led - or both, and they paid for it.
The Wagner team claimed 18 Ukrainian casualties from this strike.
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