Footage from a GoPro mounted to the front of a Russian T-90 shows the tank shooting at something in the general direction of the tank's main gun. The target is unknown, but the video was filmed near Kharkiv.

You're probably wondering what pushed me to give such a mundane video the specific title you're seeing just below the video. To make a long story short, every time our guy Ronnie goes live to talk about conflicts around the world, he's bombarded by Russian trolls calling us biased for not publishing the Russian perspective. It's as if those Russian trolls have access to some dark part of the internet where the Russian troops are releasing vast swaths of combat footage, and we're just choosing to ignore all of it to make the webpage seem entirely like Ukraine is dominating.

Truth of the matter is, a majority of the Russian combat footage is being released through official Russian channels. We monitor those same channels, and this is the type of high speed footage the Russian PAO teams are putting out for the world to see. It's incredibly rare for us to get genuine footage from the Russian perspective. In fact, in the almost 1,000 blog posts I've written since February 24th that have to do with the Russia-Ukraine war, I can count the number of genuine looking pieces of infantry combat footage that I've seen coming out of the Russian POV on one hand. For the most part, it's all been insanely filtered through the lens of Russian state media to paint an intense image of an inevitable Russian victory in Ukraine.

While the outcome of the conflict itself is still in the air, and likely will be for the next couple of years, Russia continues to have a vice-like grip on all of the footage coming out of the region. As a result, this is what we get. A 52-second clip of a Russian main tank gun firing in the general direction of what may or may not be Ukrainian forces.

So, this one's for you, Russian troll guy working a bot farm in Yekaterinburg for 800 rubles a day. It's super high speed footage of the most modern Russian combat tank that is actively seeing combat.