At whom is the Ukrainian soldier firing from an open bus?

A Ukrainian officer drives from one checkpost to another North of Slovyansk and fires at snipers on a side road in the forest to prevent them from shooting at their transport.



The route he takes is this one:

At the sideroad he fires, because their may be snipers in the forest trying to shoot at them.

This officer can also be seen in an interview about an attack on a rebel positions here.

Here you can see it is the same person:

The story that Ukrainian soldiers are randomly firing from their buses at villagers is Russian propaganda.