Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack
The man tries to move away from the drone hovering above him, cowering behind a white van as he is being pursued. Eventually, the drone dunks on him before exploding on impact and injuring him.Sometimes called "human safari", the deployment of remotely-operated drones against civilians has often been used by Russians to terrify residents of front line areas in Ukraine."The world must see this," Zelensky wrote on Telegram. "It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that Russian soldiers are enjoying killings and tormenting people."The video showed a "barbaric war crime", said Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.
- ▪The man tries to move away from the drone hovering above him, cowering behind a white van as he is being pursued.
- ▪Eventually, the drone dunks on him before exploding on impact and injuring him.Sometimes called "human safari", the deployment of remotely-operated drones against civilians has often been used by Russians to terrify residents of front line
- ▪"It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that Russian soldiers are enjoying killings and tormenting people."The video showed a "barbaric war crime", said Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.
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Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Drone appears to chase Ukrainian man and detonate near himByLaura GozziPublished3 minutes agoUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has shared a video on social media of a drone hunting down a man in southern Ukraine, saying it showed an instance of a Russian "safari" attack against civilians.The video shows the drone…
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