Footage shows Russian soldier following Ukrainian drone to surrender
Crawling through hell! Remarkable footage shows Russian soldier communicating with Ukrainian drone and following it out of No Man’s Land to surrender as missiles rain down on him
- Russian soldier in Bakhmut surrenders, escaping being shot at by ex-comrades
Remarkable footage shows how a Russian soldier crawled ‘through hell’ to surrender to Ukraine by communicating with a drone to follow it out of No Man’s Land – while missiles launched by his former comrades rained down on him.
The troop does not want to fight so tries to communicate with a Ukrainian drone, which had been dropping explosives on the battlefield in Bakhmut, that he wants to surrender.
The soldier, fed up of fighting Vladimir Putin’s bloody war, makes a series of gestures including putting his arms in an ‘x’ across his chest, to indicate ‘no’ to the drone’s camera.
The battered Russian soldier then reaches for a white piece of fabric which he shows to the drone to indicate his surrender.
It comes as reports continue to surface over Russians ceding hard-won ground and fleeing their positions in the fiercely contested bloody battleground of Bakhmut.
Remarkable footage shows how a Russian soldier crawled ‘through hell’ to surrender to Ukraine by communicating with a drone to follow it out of No Man’s Land
Dylan Burns , a journalist reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine said he had ‘never seen anything like it’
The soldier was given the opportunity to surrender under the Ukrainian government’s ‘I Want To Live’ project
The soldier was given the opportunity to surrender under the Ukrainian government’s ‘I Want To Live’ project, which began last September, and gives Russian troops a way out if they have been forced to the front lines by the Kremlin.
The drone then proceeds to guide the soldier through the trenches in Bakhmut as he is shot at by former colleagues in the Russian Army and set upon by explosives.
As the soldier runs across the battlefield to seek cover behind a wrecked vehicle an explosion narrowly misses him.
Dylan Burns, a journalist reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine said he had ‘never seen anything like it’.
He said: ‘A Russian soldier, who doesn’t want to fight, attempts to communicate with a Ukrainian drone in order to surrender.
‘The drone gives him instructions telling him to follow it, he treads through no man’s land following the drone, all while being shot at by his former comrades for daring to surrender.
‘He survives after an astonishing journey through hell.’
The battered and bruised, but alive, soldier then briefly speaks in Russian to a camera.
Ukraine’s ‘I Want To Live’ project shared a video saying it was ‘the story with the occupier who surrendered to the Ukrainian drone under Bakhmut [who] received a truly “cinematic” continuation’.
However, his partner who fought in the same battle ‘blew himself with a grenade “according to the method”, choosing a infamous and meaningless death’.
The drone then proceeds to guide the soldier through the trenches in Bakhmut as he is shot at by former colleagues in the Russian Army and set upon by explosives
The Russian soldier fleeing across the battlefield being shot at by former comrades
As the soldier runs across the battlefield to seek cover behind a wrecked vehicle an explosion narrowly misses him
The soldier running through a trench as he tries to escape the hellish battleground
The battered and bruised, but alive, soldier then briefly speaks in Russian to a camera.
They added: ‘Another Russian soldier, who fell into the lens of a Ukrainian drone in the same positions, did not want to surrender to the drone, was wounded by the same drone and shot himself directly in the trench.
‘Both could have done as well as their smarter comrade by turning themselves into captivity and staying alive. The smart one will soon return home to his relatives, alive and unharmed. The other two will remain lying in Ukrainian soil.
‘The moral of this fable is: Russian soldier, do not listen to the Kremlin butchers, do not believe their cannibal calls to die on Ukrainian soil!
‘They will continue to dispose of people like you by the thousands and thousands. Ukraine, your life is more expensive than Russian commanders, because you can be exchanged for captured Ukrainian heroes.
‘If you want to go home, surrender yourself to captivity.’
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