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The fight at the temporary disposition site goes on just as on the frontline.
Commanders meet the returning vehicles, check their state and readiness,
assign new tasks and the crews go to battle again.
It's not safe here either.
A stray mortar shell has hit several meters away.
Fortunately the shell didn't explode having mostly went into the ground.
Several were wounded with shell splinter and parts of the tail.
Tank commander got his hand wounded.
Several splinters have hit Victor Kuznetsov's hand.
One has touched Marat.
One of the crews is tasked with performing contact reconnaissance
by a sudden raid at the right flank while main forces are attacking the college.
To destroy the already known militant firing points
and to reveal new ones by taking the fire.
Narrow lanes comprised of old houses with thick clay walls
remind of some darayya parts.
Tanks have a hard time working in these conditions, just as in Darayya.
The tank approaches the highway in the place we know already where the hit tanks are standing.
Rushes through the open sector and comes next to the enemy.
This house is the Syrian Army's frontier here,
militant positions are 30-50 meters away.
It's very hard to move between the houses
with several anti-tank crews possible in any of those.
The crew uses the natural obstacles for as long as possible.
Here's the first target within enemy's defense depth.
Tankmen start firing the machine guns upon militants
forcing those to return fire and uncover themselves.
The crew fires machine gun upon the potentially dangerous objects
but the main task is to destroy the already known targets.
The tank retreats right after having fired.
Militant movement spotted within the ruins to the left.
Maybe a tunnel exit is situated there.
To be continued...
Vasily Pavlov, Igor Nadyrshin, Victor Kuznetsov, Marat Musin. ANNA-News. Syria.