Ukraine's 'Witch,' a lawyer turned mortar commander, shows scrippsnews inside her command bunker, where she uses drone footage to direct her teams.
The commander of a Ukrainian mortar platoon, whose callsign is"Witch," barks orders to her drone operator, whose callsign is"User," on the southern edge of Bakhmut. She needs User to give her eyes on the target so she can tell Pidsumky, one of her mortar operators, that it’s time.In rare footage from inside her command bunker, where she uses drone footage to direct her mortar teams, we see her eyes focused on the monitor, watching and waiting for impact.
"Our main occupation is to defend our infantry, to make the fire in front of our front line of infantry," said Witch. Scripps News met up with Witch, a Ukrainian lawyer-turned-warrior, in Chasiv Yar, a battle-scarred village six miles from Bakhmut, jolted 24-7 by the sound of outgoing Ukrainian artillery.Witch directs fire at the Russians from much closer; that’s the marvel of mortars.That portability is especially important in a war in which Ukraine’s infantry is forced to move by foot.
"We can move very fast with mortar, and we can change our position and we can give a fire from different places," said Witch."With our drones, we can see the corpses of our enemies, and we can count them, and we can estimate the success of our combat operations," said Witch."If 30% of our enemy in the unit which was attacked us is dead or injured, that means this unit cannot go forward. That means our work was successful," she explains.
Now in Ukraine’s counteroffensive, infantry units count on Witch to provide them with their only cover since there is no air support.Witch: It's more complicated because we are moving forward and we have to be closer to our infantry units. And there is not a lot of firing positions.Bellini: And of course, the Russians are targeting you.
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