MERCY MISSION
Stirring moment Ukrainian drone pilot takes pity on wounded Russian…replacing bomb with water and guiding him to safety
He was later reportedly shot dead by his own mates while surrendering to Kyiv's forces
THIS is the moment a wounded Russian soldier in desperate need of food and water was saved by a Ukrainian drone pilot in a stirring move.
The Russian soldier went into hiding inside a dugout and remained there for seven days after a failed assault against the Ukrainian troops.
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An attack drone from Kyiv's K-2 battalion was scouring enemy trenches for troops at the frontlines when the Russian soldier was found.
He was in desperate need of food and water and came out after the available resources inside the trenches were exhausted.
The Russian soldier wanted to surrender and begged for mercy with folded hands.
He was so exhausted that he could not walk and requested the Ukrainian drone pilot to give him some water water.
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And instead of killing him, the Ukrainian drone operator decided to save his life.
Heartwarming footage shows the drone dropping a bottle of water instead of a bomb to help the wounded enemy.
Along with the bottle fell a note with instructions asking him to move along the trench and surrender.
The note read: "Follow the drone at the top of the trenches."
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Footage showed the Russian frontline soldier moving along the drone in a bid to surrender himself to the Ukrainians.
But he was later reportedly shot dead by his own teammates while surrendering to Kyiv's forces.
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It comes after a Ukrainian soldier revealed how he captured 28 Russian prisoners of war after aiming a tank gun at their bunker in Kursk.
Sgt Maksim, 35, worked as a chef on a British oil tanker before signing up to defend his homeland when Vladimir Putin invaded two and a half years ago.
He said terrified Russian soldiers raised their guns above their heads in a symbolic act of submission as the tank bore down on their position.
He added: “They held up their weapons to show they surrender then we pointed our guns upwards to show that we accepted.
“Then I spoke with their commander and said we will guarantee their safety and that they won’t be killed.
“They will be transferred to Ukraine.”
Ukraine top commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said troops had captured 594 Russian prisoners of war in the first three weeks of the lightning blitz.
Meanwhile, Putin has been accused of war crimes including torturing and brutally killing enemy soldiers in ways that go against the Geneva Convention.
Just days ago some sick Russian soldiers allegedly executed an unarmed Ukrainian soldier with a sword marked with a chilling inscription.
Horror pictures show the blood-soaked scene as the prisoner of war's body is seen splayed with the blade buried in his chest.
The weapon - with an elaborate hilt echoing a zombie knife - has the message "For Kursk" scrawled across the blade.
It is referencing Ukraine's ongoing invasion of Russia where they have managed to seize a huge swath of territory from Putin.
The vile execution is the latest grim example of Russian barbarity, following troops being beaten to death with sledgehammers.
Last month a Russian fighter was shown “brandishing the severed head of a slain Ukrainian soldier impaled on a stake”.
Also in August, a suspected Ukrainian prisoner of war was pictured with his head, arms and legs dismembered.
Videos have shown executions of unarmed and bound PoWs.
In June, the severed head of a Ukrainian defender was allegedly placed on a war-damaged armoured vehicle by Russian invaders.
And Putin's infamous Wagner Group took pride in carrying out executions with sledgehammers.
They even sent a blood-stained weapon to the EU in a sick taunt amid ongoing Western support for Ukraine.
UKRAINE'S DRAMATIC BLITZ
Ukraine has been raining hell on Russian ammunition depots in devastating scorched-earth attacks.
Over 58 storage buildings, belonging to the Main Artillery Directorate of Russia's Defence Ministry, have either been obliterated or destroyed beyond repair.
Several open areas stacked with ammunition have been destroyed while railway units and trains containing Russian military equipment have also been wiped out.
Pictures released by verified OSINT accounts now show the level of destruction near Oktyabrsky in Tver Oblast, where Kyiv's crack units have been blitzing targets with Kamikaze drones.
The areas used for loading ammunition onto trains to transport them to the frontlines have also been affected, Pravada reports.
It comes just days after Ukraine's biggest attack on Russian soil was seen from space after Kamikaze drones obliterated Putin's massive weapon arsenal.
The ammunition depot exploded in a huge mushroom fireball with thick black smoke pouring into the sky in Toropets and nearby villages.
Dramatic footage showed the scale of the strong blast that even caused an earthquake of 2.8 on the Richter scale.
And the following mushroom cloud was so big that it was snapped by satellites all the way from space.
Schools and kindergartens in the area were ordered to shut down due to ongoing explosions and toxic smoke filling the sky.
The modern storage depots in Tver region - part of Russian military unit No. 71628 - were hit by multiple kamikaze drones in the massive attack.
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It's thought up to 30,000 tonnes of munitions were being held in the facilities for Putin's war.
The facility is some 285 miles from the Ukrainian border and is also alleged to house a giant stock of North Korean missiles and weapons sent by Putin ally Kim Jong Un inside.
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