This is the heartstopping moment a Russian soldier is blown up inspecting a Ukrainian land mine disguised as Rubbish.
The footage, captured by a drone nearby, follows the hapless soldier as he bends down to examine what appears to be trash on a snow-covered road in Ukraine.
The Russian soldier gets a nasty surprise after kneeling down and touching the item.
The so-called rubbish turns out to be a Ukrainian land mine in disguise, instantly blowing the soldier up.
Ash and black smoke stain the snowy patch where the soldier was last seen.
It comes after Ukrainian warplanes damaged a Russian ship moored in the Black Sea off Crimea 22 months into the war, bolstering Ukrainian morale after battlefield disappointments and doubts about the future of Western aid.
Russia then launched what military observers read as retaliatory strikes, firing almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station where more than 100 civilians were gathered to catch a train to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
The barrages killed at least five people and knocked out power in most of the southern city of Kherson.
The Kremlin’s forces launched an artillery and drone bombardment of the Kherson region just as some 140 civilians were waiting for a train at the region’s capital city of the same name, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.
The shelling killed one policeman and injured two other police officers, as well as two civilians.
More than 100 people who were waiting for the train at the time of the attack arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday morning, national rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia said.
The attack on the Kherson region and its capital hit residential areas and a mall as well as striking the power grid, leaving around 70 percent of households in Kherson city without electricity during the winter cold, regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Targeting energy infrastructure was also a Russian tactic last winter, when it tried to break Ukrainians’ spirit by denying them heating and running water.
