2023-06-15 14:28:37
The Russo-Ukraine war started for more than a year, and the two 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 signaled their surrender to the Ukrainian drone.
Yuriy Fedorenkoz, commander of the UAV department of the 92nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, uploaded a video on Twitter on May 10, saying that on May 9, a Russian soldier surrendered to the Ukrainian drone. In the video, a Russian soldier is on the trenches of the battlefield. He crosses his hands towards the drone to signal the other party not to throw bombs. to 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 30-year-old Ruslan. 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 mandatory military training 10 years ago, but never expected to actually be involved in a 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 other team members that they were going to the fierce fighting area of Bakhmut in Udon. “We knew they wanted to put us in a ‘meat grinder,'” Ruslan said. Ruslan recalled that on the day of the surrender, a Wagner fighter picked him and two other teammates 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 pulled the grenade ring and the other shot himself. After running in the trench for a long time, Ruslan was exhausted and could only surrender in the end.
The Ukrainian soldier, the 26-year-old drone operator nicknamed “Boxer” (Boxer), said that he did not drop a grenade on Ruslan in the end, “Although he is an enemy, although he killed our children, I still stand for him. He feels sad.” Ruslan said that even though he knew that he might be punished if he returned to Russia in the future, he still wanted to return to his family.
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