Ukrainian soldier’s harrowing escape from drone-infested kill-zone
Ukrainian soldier’s harrowing escape from drone-infested kill-zone
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After being wounded in the leg by a suicide drone on the front lines of eastern Ukraine, Surovyi, a 40-year-old Ukrainian soldier, knew he had to get to safety whatever it took. Zachary Goelman produced this report.
A wounded Ukrainian soldier has told how he crawled for five days through a drone-infested kill-zone on the front lines to reach medics.
The 40-year-old goes by the call-sign Surovyi, and said a battlefield injury left him without the use of his leg. But he knew he needed to escape.
“After a while I could not walk anymore, I crawled on all fours, I went up and down, all on my knees. I then found myself in a ditch, there were pine needles there. I dug the earth a bit and covered myself with soil so that I was less visible, I covered myself with pine needles as well and then another FPV drone came but it failed to hit us.”
FPV stands for first-person view, and describes the type of dystopian 21st-century warfare dominating the battlefields of Europe’s biggest military conflict.
In Ukraine, the vast number of drones used by both sides have created a “kill zone” that stretches more than six miles from the contact line.
It makes evacuation of the wounded almost impossible.
“We were literally surrounded by FPVs, bloody hell, and I got hit in the leg.”
Surovyi said he was deployed along the northern part of the front line in the Donetsk region where Russian forces have rolled through Ukrainian lines in recent weeks.
His injury left him and his partner with no choice.
“My leg went numb, I do not even know how to call this feeling but I understood it was useless and I said to my partner, ‘let’s get out of here or we will get killed’.”
Another Russian FPV drone tried to hit Surovyi and his fellow soldier, but it missed.
Days later he was picked up by a medical evacuation team.
Surovyi said his son’s birthday had just passed. But that it was he who got a “little gift.”
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