
A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces escaped from an attack by a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle, repelling it with a board in the Dnipropetrovsk direction, as the commander of the 27th Guards Division Ivan Mamaev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
AI-generated summary
The incident occurred in the context of ongoing fighting between Russia and Ukraine, where the use of unmanned aerial vehicles has become a common tactic.
A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces saved himself from death with the help of a board - with it he repelled the attack of a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle. This was stated by one of the commanders of the 27th Guards Division, Ivan Mamaev, as quoted by RIA Novosti.
According to the serviceman, this incident occurred in the Dnipropetrovsk direction, when a group of military personnel was moving through an open area.
“My comrade realized that a collision was about to happen, grabbed a board that was lying near the dugout and threw it at him. Thanks to the board, the drone was hit,” the agency quotes the fighter as saying.
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