2 years ago
50
A screenshot from a video showing grenades being dropped connected a Russian soldier.TpyxaNews/Twitter
A video appears to amusement a lone Russian worker hiding successful a trench, having grenades dropped connected him from a drone.
The antheral grabs 2 grenades and tosses them distant earlier they explode.
The video was wide shared by Russian outlets and bloggers arsenic an illustration of courage.
A video appears to amusement a Russian worker successful Ukraine grabbing and tossing distant grenades dropped connected him by an onslaught drone moments earlier they explode.
In the video, a Russian worker appears to beryllium lying unsocial successful a trench erstwhile a Ukrainian drone targets him with a grenade. With lone moments to spare, the worker grabs the grenade with his bare hands and flings it away.
Later successful the video, different grenade falls into the soldier's lap, and helium grabs it and tosses it distant conscionable earlier it explodes nearby.
It is not wide wherever the video originated, but it has been wide shared online by Western outlets and pro-Kremlin bloggers and outlets who touted it arsenic an illustration of Russian courage.
Grenades typically detonate wrong 3-5 seconds of the pin is removed, which means determination are lone a fewer seconds to react.
The authorities of Russia's Leningrad portion issued a connection praising the soldier's speedy reactions and identifying him, according to the Russian paper Pravda.
"We are arrogant of the courageousness and the absorption of our chap countryman — infantryman Alexei from the 138th motorized firearm brigade stationed successful the colony of Kamenka, Vyborgsky territory of the Leningrad region. We convey the commanders for training! We privation large subject luck to each the fighters of the brigade," a connection from the authorities of the Leningrad Region said.
Russian outlet Signal wrote connected Telegram that the video was filmed successful the Ukrainian colony Mala Rohan, successful Kharkiv Oblast, successful the spring.
He added that the worker was live and well.
The video is circulating online arsenic Russia continues to acquisition battlefield setbacks successful Ukraine, astir precocious the withdrawal of troops from Kherson, the archetypal large metropolis captured by Russia aft it began its penetration successful February.
Ukraine has taken backmost territory successful the eastbound and southbound done a bid of palmy counter-offensives amid reports of debased morale and a precocious decease toll of Russian soldiers.
Read the archetypal nonfiction connected Business Insider
English (US)