Russian soldiers are apparently being issued uniforms made of highly flammable material as a single drone strike leads to an entire platoon's worth of Russia wounded and dead being scorched by fire.

The footage comes from the Magura unit of Ukraine's 47th Mechanize Brigade and was recorded somewhere near Avdiivka in Donetsk. The exact context of the incident aren't known, but based on the armored vehicle wreckage in the video, it would seem the Russians' vehicle was destroyed, forcing them to seek cover in a wood line where they were ripped apart be drones, small arms, and artillery. At one point an FPV drone strikes a soldier, cooking off his ammo, and the fire rapidly spreads through the area, burning what's left of his platoon.

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