Russian soldier surrenders to drone

A Russian soldier who was fighting in the trenches outside Bakhmut surrendered to Ukrainian forces and was led to safety by a drone piloted by the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

A pair of videos posted on the unit’s Telegram channel on Wednesday, May 10, showed graphic scenes of Russian fighters coming under fire by the Ukrainian side, with most of them dying or ending their own lives in the trenches along the O0506 highway that leads from Chasiv Yar to the northwest part of Bakhmut.

The area has been the scene of heavy fighting for months.

Yurii Fedorenko, who commands the 92nd’s Achilles drone company, wrote on his Telegram channel that one Russian soldier signaled to a hovering surveillance drone that he wanted to surrender but that his comrades would kill him.