A dramatic video released by the Armed Forces of Ukraine shows a Russian soldier running for his life and freedom as he surrenders to a Ukrainian drone and then walks through the trenches as his comrades open fire on him.
The footage has been widely shared on Twitter and other social media since it was released two days ago, showing a Russian soldier “negotiating” his surrender with the Ukrainian military using a drone, who issued him a ticket with instructions on what to do.
This footage is incredible, never seen anything like it
A Russian soldier who does not want to fight tries to contact a Ukrainian drone to surrender. The drone instructs him to follow him, he steps through no man’s land following… pic.twitter.com/AlmN6fpoi5
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The footage then shows a Russian soldier walking hundreds of meters through the trenches, stopping at one point to signal to Ukrainian cameramen that he intends to surrender (minute 1:50), and Russian soldiers who may have noticed that he was about to surrender , open to shoot him at least twice (min. 1:59 and 2:26).
At the end of the video, you can see how he reaches the Ukrainian positions.
Another version of the video recording with English subtitles:
The Russians surrender to the Ukrainian drone on the Bakhmut front. https://t.co/cbogbYkyiP pic.twitter.com/zORDvR6DQB
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Ukraine confirmed that it captured a Russian soldier
“Our team threw him a ticket with a demand to surrender and follow the drone. He agreed even though his “comrades” were shooting him in the back,” said the commander of the Ukrainian drone, who originally posted the video on Telegram, according to the LBC news site.
One of the vice prime ministers of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, confirmed that the Russian was captured.
“The enemy noticed the drones and began to make gestures to show readiness to surrender. Behind the Ukrainian positions, he was accompanied by infantrymen and scouts,” he said on Wednesday.
Vitaly Matviyenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s “I Want to Live” program for Russian soldiers who want to surrender, confirmed to Insider that the footage was taken by drone operators of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade fighting near the city of Bakhmut from Donetsk. region.
He also said that the soldier who surrendered is from the Pskov region of Russia and is safe.
Last December, the Ukrainian military also published a video guide for Russian troops who want to surrender to their drones, which was created after Ukrainian drone operators reported several cases of attempts to surrender to soldiers of the invading forces. to their drones.
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Source: Hot News
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