A screenshot from the video
The video below recently circulated online in Russian Telegram channels. It shows a combat standoff between an ordinary Russian soldier and an ‘elite NATO-trained serviceman’ of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF), loaded up with fancy weapons and equipment.
The following first person video was filmed in fall 2024 by a member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during an attempt to recapture Trudovoe village from troops of the 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Vostok (East) Group of Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
The video shows how the NATO-trained elite soldier controls the entrance to the courtyard. He then retreats before an FPV drone of the UAF strikes the supposed position of the Russian soldier.
After the strike, the UAF service member returns and enters the courtyard. At this very moment, a fire contact starts at a super-close range. Later, it turns into hand-to-hand combat in which the Russian soldier eliminates the UAF service member.
In the end of the combat, when the result was clear, the service member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces asked the Russian to leave him and give an opportunity to die from wounds.
“Leave me. That’s all. Give me [an opportunity] to die… Leave me. Let me die. Go away, please. I want to die alone. Thank you,” the Ukrainian service member said. “You were the best fighter in the world. Bye. You were better.”
The Russian soldier demonstrated a noble spirit and left the defeated Ukrainian service member on the site.
The Russian soldier filmed in the video is from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Far Eastern federal district of the Russian Federation.
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