'I showed it our vegetables – it flew at me,' Ukrainian vendor hunted by Russian FPV drone recalls the attack
A market trader in Kherson described how a Russian first-person-view drone chased him around his stall before exploding beside his van, in an attack Ukraine has called a war crime.
A Ukrainian market trader in Kherson described an attack by a Russian first-person-view drone. The drone chased him around his stall before exploding beside his van. According to BBC World, the drone was hunting down a man in southern Ukraine, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video of the incident, calling it a "barbaric war crime".
The man, identified as Yuriy, a 52-year-old vendor, escaped with multiple shrapnel wounds, concussion, and trauma. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described the attack as a "deliberate and systemic Russian strategy" to intimidate civilians.
In a separate incident, Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least 15 people and wounded 42 others, according to Associated Press. The attacks also caused large warehouse fires in several districts.
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