Dramatic new footage shows Russian soldiers trying to hide from the cold in Ukraine in pits dug in the ground, only to be targeted by a drone by Kyiv’s military, who drop home-made munitions on them.

The cold should be the last concern of Russian soldiers at the frontPhoto: video shooting

The footage also shows what appear to be rubber or black plastic canopies used by Russian soldiers to protect their ground positions from the elements. In recent days, the average temperature in eastern Ukraine has dropped below 10 degrees.

Although several seconds pass between the moment when the hand grenade fired from the drone falls into the improvised position and the explosion, the Russian soldier makes no gesture to try to get out of it. It is not entirely clear from the recording whether he was sleeping or trying to find a grenade to try to throw it away.

Another possibility is that the soldier in the video was a newly mobilized recruit who was not trained to respond to such a situation, but without knowing the exact location of the shooting, such speculation remains in the realm of speculation.

Russia would stop mobilizing new soldiers

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on October 28 that the “partial mobilization” that Vladimir Putin had approved at the end of September had ended, with tens of thousands of Russian conscripts already sent to the front.

But on Nov. 1, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin would not sign an official decree ending the mobilization, saying it was unnecessary because it had de facto ended.

His comments raised fears in Russia that the recruitment of men for the war would continue in secret, especially since the paragraph on the number of draftees into the armed forces was classified by the defense ministry in Moscow.

Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper run by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmytro Muratov, reported on September 22, a day after the Kremlin leader announced the partial mobilization, that the paragraph effectively called for the mobilization of one million Russian men to serve in Moscow’s armed forces. .

The Kremlin immediately denied this information.

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