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Artillery preparation is over and troops have joined the battle.
Freeing college building complex which will allow to prepare
the bridgehead for the further attack is the main task.
Tanks move out first to give the infantry a chance to land.
A tank carefully makes a new door in the fence.
Enemy's dense fire from teacher's tower and nearby houses
doesn't let the assault force to land at this side.
Have to try another one.
First assault group has moved forward.
Bandits have entrenched at the second floor and assault force asks the tankmen to help with fire.
An IFV returns for the next group having landed troops.
Tankmen cover the assault force at the flanks denying the militants a chance to counter-attack.
High-sounding Shilka.
Militant sniper has discovered the control center and started firing upon it.
Commander calls the tank for help.
A high-explosive fragmenting shell has made bandits unlearn shooting.
Second wave of assault force went forward.
Vasily Pavlov, Andrey Filatov, Igor Nadyrshin, Victor Kuznetsov, Marat Musin. ANNA-News. Syria.