Dozens of Russians were dramatically saved from death after a Ukrainian drone loaded with explosives got caught on a clothesline. Surprise footage showed the dramatic moment the deadly device dangled from the basic aluminium line on the side of the residential block.
This footage showed how the clothesline tangled the unmanned Ukrainian aircraft in the town of Aksay, in the Rostov Region of western Russia. The bizarre episode came on a new night of absolute horror in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine after Moscow staged brutal attacks in Kharkiv and Dnipro, despite Donald Trump’s appeal to Vladimir Putin to halt his “crazy” bombing.
The kamikaze drone R15 loaded with up to three kilograms of plastic explosives was pictured tangled in the clothesline as hundreds of residents from 48 apartments were evacuated amid fears of a detonation. There were no casualties but some locals shared what happened in the odd incident.
A female resident said: “We were asleep at 3:10am and we heard a buzzing noise. Then a bang, some debris flying. We thought something had happened to the car…and went outside and saw [the drone] hanging on our clotheslines.”
“I called the emergency number and they told us to move to a safe distance.” While these Russians were spared, Putin ignored Trump’s plea to stop Moscow’s ongoing killing spree and continued to blitz more Ukrainian cities.
While on Air Force One on Tuesday, Trump said: “We are talking to Russia. We would like them to stop. I don’t like the bombing, the bombing goes on and on, and every week thousands of young people being killed.”
Russian pummeled Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv in mass Shahed drone attacks triggering at least six fires. Locals said there were at least 26 strikes on civilian facilities, warehouses and service stations, while reports said 15 deafening explosions rocked the city, leaving at least two people injured.
War crimes prosecutors visited the sites of the Russian strikes after Putin repeatedly hit civilians and non-military facilities. Dnipro also endured another attack from Putin’s terror troops, which left 15 people injured.
In Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, a Russian Shahjed drone flew into a multi-story residential building. Three civilians, including an 11-year-old girl were injured in the horror strike.
Another strike also hit Volodymyr Zelensky’s home city Kryvyi Rih in which nine children and 11 adults were killed. America’s acting ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, warned Putin that Trump was keeping a close eye on his horror antics after the Russian refused to sign a ceasefire deal.
Shea said: “We urge the Russian Federation to bear in mind that strikes like those on Kryvyi Rih, and executions of prisoners of war, have the potential to damage peace efforts and all dependent discussions.”
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