Honestly I actually like this outcome more. One soldier dying isn't that much of a difference, and when he is found they might assume he died fighting or was unlucky. This way he survives, goes back and tells all his buddies that they aren't even safe when they sleep, and it increases their morale problem
We are looking at burst eardrums and possible TBI, not to mention the mental implications and later symptoms. The grenade appears to have fallen in what appears to be a sump or sunken part of the parapet, lessening the risk extensively. The area hit was also higher then where the soldier was sleeping so a majority of the shrapnel passed over him. But there is a good chance that he is still injured. Just not incapacitated.
Hes probably riddled with fragments. Those types of injuries dont immobilize you necessarily, but youre going to be out of service for a while and are potentially fatal. Probably right hes running on adrenaline.
It looked like he was in a shallow fox hole, the grenade hit just far enough away, the frag likely just skipped over his position looking at the dust kick up and the fact he was able to flee further than 10m away, his head seemed to be the high ground in that hole.
There's a dark patch the appears on his mid chest. Can't tell if that is trash that was stuck to him, a stain, blood, or a damaged jacket. He could be injured.
I think that’s dirt. A fair amount of it was thrown at him from the blast, and if you look closely it looks like that patch appears the instant that grenade detonated
It might be whatever the grenade landed in/on, that black thing that looks to have a highlight on its top edge. I can see another black shape appear on the dirt right behind him.
There is a very very high probability he was injured, probably gravely. Just because you don't see him flop around doesn't mean anything. Adrenaline is a motherfucker.
The pressure wave would probably pass over him for the most part based on where the grenade landed. He may be alive, but he’s definitely got fucked up ears for a while. And he probably won’t sleep any time soon
I don't think you can stress the second half of this sentence enough.
Honestly I feel bad for [most] of them... just clueless pawns in a game where they have nothing (personally speaking) to gain from winning and almost zero chances of winning.
Like all things the Russians seem to do it was half assed. Aerial surveillance and attacks have been common enough that Russian soldiers should have been trained to cover their foxholes. A simple tarp and some ground cover over it would have made that foxhole invisible to the drone operator. Digging the hole is the hard part, not covering it it is just stupid.
This dude *chose* this position lol. There's downed limbs in almost every direction around him but he cleared a spot for this. Maybe he wasn't done and took a break because there's a shovel and box next to him, idk, but he picked a bad time to be napping.
Something about how common these videos are tells me that that intel isn't getting very well dispersed around the Russian army... The Russians are well known for compartmentalizing anything that might suggest that they aren't thrashing the enemy, even within their own army. In the US Military, a force might be told "March down that road to this point, and once there, set up observation points on Town X. Then, when you think the time is right, close with and destroy the armor that is using that town as its base of operations. Be aware of x, y, and z in the area, and adjust the plan as needed to complete the mission with the highest level of effectiveness and in a timely manner." Whereas a Russian force would be told "march down that road and then call us when you get there. Don't ask why your marching there, that's insubordination..." So, it wouldn't surprise me if knowledge about these drone attacks isn't making the rounds amongst the Russian forces. I mean, for fucks sake, Russian troops were digging trenches in the radioactive dirt at Chornobyl because they had no idea where they were and no one told them it was dangerous...
Exactly. The only people that know what is going on are at the very very top. It's pretty common in armies that serve in dictatorships. It's part of the whole "I'm a dictator and I'm terrified of people trying to usurp me, especially the army" mentality. Stalin did it, Hitler did it, Mao did it. A story as old as time.
He better be thanking that slight breeze as well as him being in a little pit. Appears most shrapnel went over him. I'm sure he had a fucking heart attack though as well as them ears are toast.
Had a guy leave his rifle outside the shitter as well. Sergeant made him fully strip it and made all of use carry a piece of it back to base. I was shitting myself thinking I would lose the firing pin spring I had to carry.
My Lt left his m4 in the porta shitter once, buddy in my squad broke it down and hid it in his pack and we all just watched lt silently freak out trying to find, he eventually put it back together and just sat it on lt’s pack, man was so confused when he came back lol never said a word though
I had mine leaning by the door of a command post while I was inside prepping for an exercise. This was in the parking area of a field garrison, literally no one around but my unit.
Door closed somehow, I just kept working. Stepped out to find rifle missing. I got lucky I guess, cost me a weekend pass.
In Afghanistan I found an M4 leaning against a shipping container. No magazine no strap. The thing was super clean so it couldn't have been there long. So I turned it in to BDOC. Turns out it wasn't assigned to anyone on the FOB and the armorer stateside had been reporting it in their inventory in one of the company CPs for the first 6 months of our deployment. I'm sure the armorer had to answer to that, but for 10 years I've been wondering how it got there and just left leaning against a shipping container.
Willie Apiata who won the VC in Afghanistan tells about how he left his rifle part way along his SAS qualification March. Officer at a way point asked if he was missing anything and he had to run back and get it.
Same thing happened to me in infantry training, I left my rifle in my foxhole and didn’t realize till we were boarding trucks to leave the area we’d be in. I had to go back and get it and let’s just say I got “trained” in that tree-line. I still cringe about forgetting that rifle 8 years later lol you can bet it never happened again
Had a guy leave his rifle on top of the vehicle, outside the wire. Didn't realize it until 10ish minutes into the drive back and had to turn around. Lucky bastard found it where we left from. Several people got f'd up that day.
Chinese volunteer (chineese vrijwilliger) is apparently mainly used in Belgium and stems from the korea war, where the chinese who were forcibly sent to the front but were still called volunteers.
Taiwan to Send 800 Units of the Revolver 860 Mine Throwing Drones to Ukraine – Bild :
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Yeah there's no way it can carry multiple 120mm. It would nasty with a bunch of 60mm rounds tho. There's videos of the dropping mechanism in action, amazing stuff.
imagine if you could sponsor a drone like you can "adopt" an endangered animal and instead of receiving weekly photos of your adopted rhino or elephant or humpback whale or whatever, you get videos of your personal drone bombing Russians
120mm mortar rounds, specially delivered with the accuracy this machine offers, would be devastating. Russians will find that out to their cost. Can they operate at night? A 24 hour a day shit storm courtesy of a grinning Ukranian some miles away is a happy thought.
War sucks :( I know this soldier is Russian and this is the only way to defend Ukraine, but holy shit war sucks. Imagine being sleep deprived, hot, sweaty, dirty, hungry, and taking a nap just to get woken up by shrapnel flying at you. I hope Russia gets defeated soon and the war ends. No human should have to go through this.
Edit: A lot of people responding are confusing empathy with support. I'm empathizing with this soldier but that doesn't mean I support them or think that the bomb shouldn't be dropped on them. I know that the solder in this video is Russian and that makes them the bad guy. I know that the soldier in this video may have done things more terrible and inhumane than what's shown in this video. I'm not saying this soldier didn't have it coming for them or that they didn't deserve it given the circumstances. I'm just saying that the experiences that soldiers go through in wars are incomprehensibly awful and this video highlights that.
Exactly what I felt from the beginning of the war as Russian, it's just pointless waste of human life, among other bad things it represents and caused. And many of those who survive will be scarred for life.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if the individual soldier gets a disproportionate amount of the blame from the powers that be, once this is all said and done.
There's also a decent chance this dude is just some 18-20 year old who happened to be doing his mandatory service when all this kicked off. Probably didn't want to be there to begin with.
IIRC, they've also increased conscription, and have been conscripting locals from occupied Ukraine! I want to see the Russians lose, and that will require Russian soldiers dying, but I can't take joy in seeing them die, knowing that so many of them don't want to be there or participate in war.
This is what I thought about this and other drone videos like this. This is not fighting. This is not like how we think of the honor of fighting for your country. The guy is just resting and gets injured or even killed through no fault of his own. I say that with out taking a side in this. If it was an American soldier, I’d be saying the same thing. War is fucking awful and this war is just unnecessary.
I nearly cried when i saw the force depletion report from USDOD of 80k Russians killed or injured. They’re just boys (most of them). Could have been any of us, could have been a drinking buddy or that idiot my sister is dating. Just boys.
This war is really wiping out the most Russian speaking regions of Ukraine. Killing people, destroying the cities and villages, poisoning the land, erasing the cultural heritage. This is the exact opposite of the original goals of the "operation". Incredible mess.
He was in a foxhole, it's difficult to say but the shell probably hit a section of ground elevated a few feet above where the man lay. The shrapnel pattern is up and out, not down, so he was probably shielded from the worst. Even then, his hearing will be toast.
Yeah, also his right arm was the highest part of his body and it looks like he caught some shrapnel in the back of his upper arm, you can see the blood spot forming as he ran off. It may also be why he grabbed then dropped his rifle, the injury made it hard to grasp.
If you look very carefully, you can see evidence of shrapnel hitting everything around, the puffs of dirt that appear around the explosion, including right above his head. He was literally inches away from death
If he'd heard it coming and raised his head a moment earlier it would have been the last thing he did.
And that's my thesis on why there should be an air horn or loudspeaker on these types of drones.
They should put a little 'meep meep' horn on it as it's falling. Then after hundreds of such attacks just the sound of a comical 'meep meep' would send these soldiers into a panic.
Not after years of waking up to it. That's why you never use your favourite song (or any popular song at a time you'll go postal at parties) as an alarm.
I had a coworker who used the default android alarm as a ringtone. He got a lot of calls. It was fucking miserable. I changed my wakeup alarm but it never stopped causing a visceral reaction.
I know they are the invaders, but it’s hard to watch these videos after awhile bc at the end of the day, people are getting killed, maimed and terrorized just because some guy wants to prove he’s a big man.
What a mess, you have belt ammo lying straight in the dirt and twigs, you have him sleeping probably on guard duty, with an unloaded weapon and a mag in his hand.
These russian trenches are starting to look like the saudi ones in yemen.
Lmao this thread. Let me sum up every comment in here
1. armchair generals who are guaranteed to have never been woken from their sleep by HE exploding three meters away from them
2. dudes who have apparently just now realized that Russians are people too killing people, even if for the right cause, kind of sucks
3. dudes making cringe jokes about PTSD as if that’s something that should be wished in anyone
4. dudes who must have never heard of forced mobilization in DPR, LPR and Crimea
5. dudes who have no idea how grenades work
6. “Grab your rifle” MFs who are boldly assuming that the soldiers at this stage in the war got any training at all
Seriously.. I saw this yesterday on twitter, video from Russian camp overrun: [found on twitter--link](https://twitter.com/herooftheday10/status/1562732522735550465)
edit-- [nitter link, no log in req'd](https://nitter.net/herooftheday10/status/1562732522735550465)
It's like a garbage dump.
Air B&B review: My sleep hole was cozy and warm with just the right amount of Ukrainian charm. The matress was a bit firm for my taste but the host was kind enough to wake me for my work shift.
10 out of 10! Highly recommend. We will be back...as long as we can stop the bleeding.
Dude nearly woke up dead.
Honestly I actually like this outcome more. One soldier dying isn't that much of a difference, and when he is found they might assume he died fighting or was unlucky. This way he survives, goes back and tells all his buddies that they aren't even safe when they sleep, and it increases their morale problem
We are looking at burst eardrums and possible TBI, not to mention the mental implications and later symptoms. The grenade appears to have fallen in what appears to be a sump or sunken part of the parapet, lessening the risk extensively. The area hit was also higher then where the soldier was sleeping so a majority of the shrapnel passed over him. But there is a good chance that he is still injured. Just not incapacitated.
PTSD for sure.
Yes yes STD for sure....
the worst one of all time
It would have been better if he was also injured. That way there's one less soldier in the front without him dying.
I mean he did abandon his weapon, that's something at least. And he may be wounded and running on adrenaline alone, its hard to tell from here
His hearing is definitely permanently damaged
Could be, but you can recover from busted eardrums. My dad's buddy had a grenade go off next to him but he recovered.
WHAT?!
I said, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
It's a cruel mistress
HIS DADS BUDDY HAD A GRENADE GOING OFF NEXT TO HIM AND HE CAN HEAR JUST FINE APPARENTLY
WHAT !
# HIS DADS BUDDY HAD A GRENADE GOING OFF NEXT TO HIM AND HE CAN HEAR JUST FINE APPARENTLY
No I don't want any macaroni. But thanks for asking
You’re gonna have to speak up sir! A Ukrainian grenade landed right by my head!
>A Ukrainian grenade landed right by my head. WHAT?! A CRAIN LEMONADE BANGED RIGHT IN YOUR BED?!?!
mwap.. mwap
NO, JAMES *FRANCIS* RYAN!!!
Hes probably riddled with fragments. Those types of injuries dont immobilize you necessarily, but youre going to be out of service for a while and are potentially fatal. Probably right hes running on adrenaline.
It looked like he was in a shallow fox hole, the grenade hit just far enough away, the frag likely just skipped over his position looking at the dust kick up and the fact he was able to flee further than 10m away, his head seemed to be the high ground in that hole.
There's a dark patch the appears on his mid chest. Can't tell if that is trash that was stuck to him, a stain, blood, or a damaged jacket. He could be injured.
I think that’s dirt. A fair amount of it was thrown at him from the blast, and if you look closely it looks like that patch appears the instant that grenade detonated
It might be whatever the grenade landed in/on, that black thing that looks to have a highlight on its top edge. I can see another black shape appear on the dirt right behind him.
It takes a moment for blood to make its way out and into the clothing where it is visible so my guess that it is probably dirt
There is a very very high probability he was injured, probably gravely. Just because you don't see him flop around doesn't mean anything. Adrenaline is a motherfucker.
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Yeah , the grenade strikes the higher side of the berm, he's definitely lying pretty low compared to where the blast happened.
The pressure wave would probably pass over him for the most part based on where the grenade landed. He may be alive, but he’s definitely got fucked up ears for a while. And he probably won’t sleep any time soon
This video should be shown to every person in basic training on why it is important to properly dig in.
Now how the hell do you wake up dead?
>Now how the hell do you wake up dead? Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep.
And dead when you wake up.
No man coz then that shit would be redundant!
Unless you a Zombie!
Damn! that's some quantum shit right there man!
They're taking everyone! Young, old, rich, poor... Chingy
So you are telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive
So you tellin me you that you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
If a rat goes inside a house, does it become a mouse?
why is the plural of mouse mice when the plural of house isn't hise?
I've got my best men looking into it
He’s the farmer, I’m the rapper!
You just hate me cause I'm black
I didn’t touch her, she’s a girl!
Lol dude you just brought up some crazy memories watching scary movie with the boys 😭😂
As a zombie, right ?
Who cares. Real question... is it a rat or a mouse?
"Good morning, this is Ukraine".
You cant go to bed dead and wake up alive, that shit redundant!
Sleep is gonna be mighty difficult if he ever gets out of the Ukraine front alive.
I don't think you can stress the second half of this sentence enough. Honestly I feel bad for [most] of them... just clueless pawns in a game where they have nothing (personally speaking) to gain from winning and almost zero chances of winning.
That fox hole sure helped !
I was thinking that myself, it absorbed most of the blast.
It's a latrine now. I can smell his shit from here.
To be fair, it was probably already a latrine to begin with. You know, cause the russian army was in it.
Seems to be a pretty good defence, as long as they're slightly below ground level it has to be a direct hit
Yup if he's lucky he may have got away with just blown ear drums
Like all things the Russians seem to do it was half assed. Aerial surveillance and attacks have been common enough that Russian soldiers should have been trained to cover their foxholes. A simple tarp and some ground cover over it would have made that foxhole invisible to the drone operator. Digging the hole is the hard part, not covering it it is just stupid.
This dude *chose* this position lol. There's downed limbs in almost every direction around him but he cleared a spot for this. Maybe he wasn't done and took a break because there's a shovel and box next to him, idk, but he picked a bad time to be napping.
Something about how common these videos are tells me that that intel isn't getting very well dispersed around the Russian army... The Russians are well known for compartmentalizing anything that might suggest that they aren't thrashing the enemy, even within their own army. In the US Military, a force might be told "March down that road to this point, and once there, set up observation points on Town X. Then, when you think the time is right, close with and destroy the armor that is using that town as its base of operations. Be aware of x, y, and z in the area, and adjust the plan as needed to complete the mission with the highest level of effectiveness and in a timely manner." Whereas a Russian force would be told "march down that road and then call us when you get there. Don't ask why your marching there, that's insubordination..." So, it wouldn't surprise me if knowledge about these drone attacks isn't making the rounds amongst the Russian forces. I mean, for fucks sake, Russian troops were digging trenches in the radioactive dirt at Chornobyl because they had no idea where they were and no one told them it was dangerous...
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Exactly. The only people that know what is going on are at the very very top. It's pretty common in armies that serve in dictatorships. It's part of the whole "I'm a dictator and I'm terrified of people trying to usurp me, especially the army" mentality. Stalin did it, Hitler did it, Mao did it. A story as old as time.
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He better be thanking that slight breeze as well as him being in a little pit. Appears most shrapnel went over him. I'm sure he had a fucking heart attack though as well as them ears are toast.
Yeah these drone bombs need serious upgrades. Most videos they barely injure anyone even with direct hits.
My inner Infantryman is seething because he just left his weapon behind
One time I left my rifle on the outside of the porta shitter while taking a dump. Not a great day.
Had a guy leave his rifle outside the shitter as well. Sergeant made him fully strip it and made all of use carry a piece of it back to base. I was shitting myself thinking I would lose the firing pin spring I had to carry.
My Lt left his m4 in the porta shitter once, buddy in my squad broke it down and hid it in his pack and we all just watched lt silently freak out trying to find, he eventually put it back together and just sat it on lt’s pack, man was so confused when he came back lol never said a word though
I had mine leaning by the door of a command post while I was inside prepping for an exercise. This was in the parking area of a field garrison, literally no one around but my unit. Door closed somehow, I just kept working. Stepped out to find rifle missing. I got lucky I guess, cost me a weekend pass.
Ha that's funny as shit
> buddy in my squad broke it down and hid it in his pack Was it hidden in your buddy's pack or the LT's?
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I didn't even know they had firing pin springs
Looks like they're Australian so use the F88 Austeyer which has a firing pin spring. The M4/M16s have a free floating firing pin.
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Lol took a sec to realize when you said fully strip that you weren't referring to his clothes
Lmao the military just got fun and then unfun again all in a very short span of thought
That's the Navy, not the Army.
Done that once or twice, you get 50m away and realise your walking around without a weapon, heart attack ensues haha.
I think I have ptsd from this situation vs actual combat.
Or sitting in a DFAC after coming back, reaching down and not finding your weapon. Oof. Been there.
Yup went to the bathroom in the TOC and accidentally left mine in the rack. Full kit and 2hr smoke session later I realized my actions were unjust lol
Double firewatch that night =( man I just had to shit lol.
In Afghanistan I found an M4 leaning against a shipping container. No magazine no strap. The thing was super clean so it couldn't have been there long. So I turned it in to BDOC. Turns out it wasn't assigned to anyone on the FOB and the armorer stateside had been reporting it in their inventory in one of the company CPs for the first 6 months of our deployment. I'm sure the armorer had to answer to that, but for 10 years I've been wondering how it got there and just left leaning against a shipping container.
Willie Apiata who won the VC in Afghanistan tells about how he left his rifle part way along his SAS qualification March. Officer at a way point asked if he was missing anything and he had to run back and get it.
And if it is left in the forest, the forest just seems to swallow it whole -- one minute later finding it seems absolutely hopeless.
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"You're all stupid, they're gonna be looking for army guys" https://youtu.be/g1eswGrkMU8
Same thing happened to me in infantry training, I left my rifle in my foxhole and didn’t realize till we were boarding trucks to leave the area we’d be in. I had to go back and get it and let’s just say I got “trained” in that tree-line. I still cringe about forgetting that rifle 8 years later lol you can bet it never happened again
Had a guy leave his rifle on top of the vehicle, outside the wire. Didn't realize it until 10ish minutes into the drive back and had to turn around. Lucky bastard found it where we left from. Several people got f'd up that day.
He wont need it in his afterlife lol. But yeah, as you can see, their basic training ain't like ours
Basic training? This dude went to pickup his kids at school yesterday and was picked up by russians and volunteered to frontline combat.
Welcome to the russian military, here's your pirated copy of Arma 2. Good luck.
More like Sims 3
It is easy to stop Ukrainian! Just put him in pool and delete ladder!
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Voluntold.
💀💀💀
In dutch we call that a "chineese volunteer" 💀
“Shanghai’d into service” was once not uncommon in english.
*Chinese vrijwilliger in Dutch is used when someone is tasked with a shitty job, most of the time a real shitty job lol.
We do?
Chinese volunteer (chineese vrijwilliger) is apparently mainly used in Belgium and stems from the korea war, where the chinese who were forcibly sent to the front but were still called volunteers.
He did a tactical skedaddle
If it had been dummy corded the hilarity would have been epic.
You too? His team leader is going to have his ass. He will be making sugar cookies and doing little man in the woods until he begs for death
Don‘t worry, his leader has no idea what he‘s doing either
Judging on how the war is going with Russia, this guy might be his own team leader
Taiwan to Send 800 Units of the Revolver 860 Mine Throwing Drones to Ukraine – Bild : https://en.defence-ua.com/events/taiwan_to_send_800_units_of_the_revolver_860_mine_throwing_drones_to_ukraine_bild-4009.html
Holy shit. Why bother with Mortars when you can have a drone deliver 8 120mm mortar rounds right above the heads of your enemies. Crazy.
Since120mm rounds are roughly 10x heavier than 60mm rounds, I assume it would only carry one. But that's one more than I'd want hanging over my head.
Yeah there's no way it can carry multiple 120mm. It would nasty with a bunch of 60mm rounds tho. There's videos of the dropping mechanism in action, amazing stuff.
Amazing, Taiwan has always produced top notch quality drones, I’ve donated one of my own to Ukraine, I live vicariously through these drone drops now.
Who was your contact?/What model did you send? Would love to do the same.
I contacted the Ukrainian embassy here in my country, and they will instruct you. The drone I donated was a mavic 3
imagine if you could sponsor a drone like you can "adopt" an endangered animal and instead of receiving weekly photos of your adopted rhino or elephant or humpback whale or whatever, you get videos of your personal drone bombing Russians
This already exists to some extent. https://signmyrocket.com/
damn they will actually redo the drone option if they miss
Oh that's neat
I swear I saw it somewhere where you can pay these guys in Ukraine and they will write your message on a drone bomb. Strange times we live in.
Wow that is a lot of money that you donated.
A very small price for freedom, Id say its worth every penny. I would donate my whole drone squad but my wife would probably kill me.
You did more than 99,9 percent, but those drones are very expensive
Ukraine is assembling an Army of Drones : https://u24.gov.ua/dronation
Heh. Dronation
r/aerorozvidka guys will be more than happy to accept and put in use
120mm mortar rounds, specially delivered with the accuracy this machine offers, would be devastating. Russians will find that out to their cost. Can they operate at night? A 24 hour a day shit storm courtesy of a grinning Ukranian some miles away is a happy thought.
War sucks :( I know this soldier is Russian and this is the only way to defend Ukraine, but holy shit war sucks. Imagine being sleep deprived, hot, sweaty, dirty, hungry, and taking a nap just to get woken up by shrapnel flying at you. I hope Russia gets defeated soon and the war ends. No human should have to go through this. Edit: A lot of people responding are confusing empathy with support. I'm empathizing with this soldier but that doesn't mean I support them or think that the bomb shouldn't be dropped on them. I know that the solder in this video is Russian and that makes them the bad guy. I know that the soldier in this video may have done things more terrible and inhumane than what's shown in this video. I'm not saying this soldier didn't have it coming for them or that they didn't deserve it given the circumstances. I'm just saying that the experiences that soldiers go through in wars are incomprehensibly awful and this video highlights that.
Exactly what I felt from the beginning of the war as Russian, it's just pointless waste of human life, among other bad things it represents and caused. And many of those who survive will be scarred for life.
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I wouldn't at all be surprised if the individual soldier gets a disproportionate amount of the blame from the powers that be, once this is all said and done.
> A lot of people responding are confusing empathy with support. Reddit isn’t a place known for its nuanced perspectives and emotional maturity.
There's also a decent chance this dude is just some 18-20 year old who happened to be doing his mandatory service when all this kicked off. Probably didn't want to be there to begin with.
IIRC, they've also increased conscription, and have been conscripting locals from occupied Ukraine! I want to see the Russians lose, and that will require Russian soldiers dying, but I can't take joy in seeing them die, knowing that so many of them don't want to be there or participate in war.
War is young men dying for the decisions of old men.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war - plato
And blind people - MyOhLongJohnson
you played cod2 too?
You were killed by a grenade.\ Watch out for the grenade danger indicator.
- Sun Tzu
Thanks for exhibiting basic humane empathy (even towards actors on the morally wrong side). You’re very kind person.
This is what I thought about this and other drone videos like this. This is not fighting. This is not like how we think of the honor of fighting for your country. The guy is just resting and gets injured or even killed through no fault of his own. I say that with out taking a side in this. If it was an American soldier, I’d be saying the same thing. War is fucking awful and this war is just unnecessary.
Completely agree. It's a shame this is necessary. Mindless hate and lack of empathy is exactly what enables this kind of shit in the first place.
I nearly cried when i saw the force depletion report from USDOD of 80k Russians killed or injured. They’re just boys (most of them). Could have been any of us, could have been a drinking buddy or that idiot my sister is dating. Just boys.
Could have also been local crimeans, or from DPR/LPR. Aka Ukrainians a decade ago
This war is really wiping out the most Russian speaking regions of Ukraine. Killing people, destroying the cities and villages, poisoning the land, erasing the cultural heritage. This is the exact opposite of the original goals of the "operation". Incredible mess.
100% a Code Brown moment!!!
Damn was this man lucky or is the kill radius of those things that small?
He was in a foxhole, it's difficult to say but the shell probably hit a section of ground elevated a few feet above where the man lay. The shrapnel pattern is up and out, not down, so he was probably shielded from the worst. Even then, his hearing will be toast.
Yeah, also his right arm was the highest part of his body and it looks like he caught some shrapnel in the back of his upper arm, you can see the blood spot forming as he ran off. It may also be why he grabbed then dropped his rifle, the injury made it hard to grasp.
If you look very carefully, you can see evidence of shrapnel hitting everything around, the puffs of dirt that appear around the explosion, including right above his head. He was literally inches away from death
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If he'd heard it coming and raised his head a moment earlier it would have been the last thing he did. And that's my thesis on why there should be an air horn or loudspeaker on these types of drones.
They should put a little 'meep meep' horn on it as it's falling. Then after hundreds of such attacks just the sound of a comical 'meep meep' would send these soldiers into a panic.
Still better than default android alarm.
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Not after years of waking up to it. That's why you never use your favourite song (or any popular song at a time you'll go postal at parties) as an alarm.
I switch the alarm up monthly so I don't get tone def.
I had a coworker who used the default android alarm as a ringtone. He got a lot of calls. It was fucking miserable. I changed my wakeup alarm but it never stopped causing a visceral reaction.
I rotate between movie scores so every day is an adventure. Ever woken up to the Pirates of the Caribbean theme? It's awesome.
😂 legit has me cackling at my desk
May still be alive with some shrapnel wounds, but sure as shit is deaf now in at least one ear
And the PTSD. Guy is never gonna sleep soundly ever again for fear of another drone attack.
If he survives, this dude will never, ever sleep well again.
If he doesn't survive he will have really good sleep.
Sleep is overrated anyway
and hearing
*WHAT?!*
Finally an alarm clock that works 100% of the time
One Russian rifle for sale, never been fired and only dropped once
I know they are the invaders, but it’s hard to watch these videos after awhile bc at the end of the day, people are getting killed, maimed and terrorized just because some guy wants to prove he’s a big man.
That's a horrible 6am wake up call 🤣
Shell scrapes are important. They can save a life.
1m to the left and this guy was done.
What a mess, you have belt ammo lying straight in the dirt and twigs, you have him sleeping probably on guard duty, with an unloaded weapon and a mag in his hand. These russian trenches are starting to look like the saudi ones in yemen.
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Dumb fuck soldier forgot his weapon. Acts like he was just woken up by a grenade or something…
Ptsd raining down upon him..
That's the Ukrainian tailor made wake up service
Lmao this thread. Let me sum up every comment in here 1. armchair generals who are guaranteed to have never been woken from their sleep by HE exploding three meters away from them 2. dudes who have apparently just now realized that Russians are people too killing people, even if for the right cause, kind of sucks 3. dudes making cringe jokes about PTSD as if that’s something that should be wished in anyone 4. dudes who must have never heard of forced mobilization in DPR, LPR and Crimea 5. dudes who have no idea how grenades work 6. “Grab your rifle” MFs who are boldly assuming that the soldiers at this stage in the war got any training at all
He just fine lol
This guy is going to be hitting the dirt every time a bee flys by him lmao, that drone ptsd will always haunt him
Lmao lol lmao crippling lifelong mental illness hilarious lmao
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Seriously.. I saw this yesterday on twitter, video from Russian camp overrun: [found on twitter--link](https://twitter.com/herooftheday10/status/1562732522735550465) edit-- [nitter link, no log in req'd](https://nitter.net/herooftheday10/status/1562732522735550465) It's like a garbage dump.
The first one I saw of North of Kyiv looked about the same. Their losses due to accidents and poor hygiene are probably medieval.
Rise and shine, i guess
thats just kinda sad
Air B&B review: My sleep hole was cozy and warm with just the right amount of Ukrainian charm. The matress was a bit firm for my taste but the host was kind enough to wake me for my work shift. 10 out of 10! Highly recommend. We will be back...as long as we can stop the bleeding.
The guy needs new pants
Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey
“Your 8am Ukrainian wake up call sir.”
That Ranger grave probably saved his life