WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. A Russian soldier desperate to survive after Ukrainian drones took out his entire unit used hand signals to surrender — before he was guided across enemy lines by the same drones that used explosives to kill his comrades.
Russian draftee Ruslan Anitin, 30, was one of the sole survivors of his platoon near the eastern city of Bakhmut on May 9 when drone and mortar attacks persisted for hours — and eventually led him to surrender.
Drone footage published by the Wall Street Journal shows Anitin standing up without his rifle and drawing his finger across his neck while shaking his head — using hand gestures to beg the Ukrainian pilots to spare his life if he surrendered.
When Anitin’s commander moved his unit to Bakhmut — as other troops retreated from the region — members of his unit “understood that they wanted to throw us into that meat grinder,” he told the Journal.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/russian-soldier-surrenders-to-drone-on-bakhmut-battlefield/
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