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Film of desperate Russian soldiers openly surrendering to Ukrainian drones – Xinhua English.news.cn


The Russo-Ukrainian war began for more than a year, and both sides fought fiercely in the Udong and Unan regions. Recently, a video of a Russian soldier gesturing to surrender to a Ukrainian drone has gone viral on the Internet American media reported on the 14th that the 30-year-old Russian soldier, Ruslan Anitin, was exhausted in the trench at the time . After two teammates around him were injured and committed suicide, they signed their surrender to the drone in Ukraine.

Yuriy Fedorenkoz, head of the UAV division of the 92nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, uploaded a video on Twitter on May 10, saying that a Russian soldier surrendered to the Ukrainian drone on May 9. In the video, a Russian soldier is in the trenches of the battlefield , he crosses his hands towards the drone to signal the other party not to throw bombs at the drone and drop the note near the soldier.

According to the “New York Post” citing the “Wall Street Journal” report on the 14th, the man in the video is Ruslan aged 30. Ruslan told reporters that he originally ran a liquor store in Idritsa, Russia, and lived a middle-class life with his wife. He had received compulsory military training 10 years ago, but never really expected to be involved in war, thinking that only professional soldiers would go to war. But last September, he was suddenly called up and sent to another town for weeks of training before being sent to Ukraine.

At the beginning of May this year, the commander told him and the other members of the team that they were going to the fierce fighting area of ​​Bakhmut in Udon. “We knew they wanted to put us in a meat grinder,” said Ruslan. Ruslan remembered that Wagner’s fighter chose him and two other members of the team on the day of the surrender and took them to the nearest trench, and then told them, “If you refuse to do your mission, you will be shot . If you try to retreat, you will also be shot.”

They continued to encounter bombing in the trench. According to Uzbekistan, the drone footage showed that two of Ruslan’s teammates committed suicide after being seriously injured. One removed the grenade ring and the another shot himself. After running in the ditch for a long time, Ruslan was exhausted and could only give up in the end.

The Ukrainian soldier, the 26-year-old drone operator nicknamed “Boxer” (Boxer), who did not drop a grenade on Ruslan in the end, said, “Even though he is an enemy, even though he killed our children, I still to stand He feels sad.” Ruslan said that although he knew he could be punished if he returned to Russia in the future, he still wanted to return to his family.

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