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Heart-stopping moment Russian soldier CATCHES Ukrainian drone before exhausted fighter drops UAV triggering deadly blast
Watch footage of the Russian fighter desperately running from the drone before he catches it mid-air
THIS is the moment a Russian soldier catches a Ukrainian kamikaze drone and drops it sparking a fatal explosion.
Aerial footage shows the man being relentlessly stalked by a Ukrainian UAV loaded with explosives.
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Putin's fighter is seen desperately running for his life as the UAV buzzes around him in close up footage filmed from the drone itself.
At one point he catches the flying bomb and - clutching it in his hand - keeps running.
But then he slows down, dropping the device and causing it to detonate in a huge explosion, instantly killing him.
His body could be seen lying on the road in the war zone, with unconfirmed reports suggesting it was Kursk, still held by Ukraine.
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Some reports claimed that the operator blew up the drone as the soldier carried it.
But later close up footage from the UAV itself showed him dropping it onto the right as it exploded.
One unconfirmed report from news outlet Haberler claimed the incident happened in the Kursk region of Russia.
“The advance of the Ukrainian army in Kursk has renewed frontline fighting, and the image transmitted from the area once again showed the merciless face of war,” said the report.
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“A Russian soldier following the Ukrainian army caught his drone and began to run, but the explosion took his life in just a few seconds.”
Ukraine invaded Kursk through the Sumy border-region on August 6 - taking Vladimir Putin's armies by surprise and stealing swathes of territory.
They now claim to control over 500 square miles of Putin's territory in Russia’s worst defeat on home soil since World War Two.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky said the blitz was part of a master plan to help end the war.
It served a humiliating blow to Putin's efforts - as the so-called "special operation" he said would last just weeks in early 2022 approaches the three-year mark.
Footage has revealed the true extent of Ukraine's success in Kursk with hordes of Russian soldiers surrendering and being taken as prisoners of war.
Raging Putin hit back with indiscriminate air attacks on Ukrainian cities as he licks his wounds from the crushing defeat.
Just days ago two Russian ballistic missiles were launched at a military academy and hospital inside Ukraine.
Some 271 people were injured in what has been described as one of the deadliest attacks since the start of the war.
Days ago Putin said he is ready for peace talks with Ukraine after more than two and a half years of war.
The despot said his government is willing to revisit a failed deal from mediated talks between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul early on in the war.
Speaking at the 2024 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok today, he said: "Are we ready to negotiate with them?
"We have never refused to do so, but not on the basis of some ephemeral demands, but on the basis of those documents that were agreed and actually initialled in Istanbul."
A preliminary agreement between Russia and Ukraine was reached in the Turkish city not long after the war began but never implemented.
The terms of the deal were never made public.
Putin has previously floated peace talks - but has always insisted that Russia would take, or get to keep, occupied Ukrainian territory.
He is likely to remain firm and want occupying forces to remain in the areas of Ukraine they've invaded.
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Kyiv has previously said it will not directly engage with Russia during any negotiations to end the war and has been steadfast on not giving up any of its territory.
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