This is the incredible moment a wounded Ukrainian soldier and his Russian foe emotionally paid their respects to each other as the fighter took his final breaths after being slashed by Putin’s serviceman in a knife fight.
Distressing bodycam footage filmed from the helmet of the Ukrainian fighter shows the two men opening fire at each other near in ruins of a blitzed building.
The defending Ukrainian soldier manages to reach his opponent and is seen grabbing the barrel of the Russian’s automatic rifle, leading to a struggle which results in the Putin fighter pulling his knife and viciously slashing his rival in the thigh.
The two fighters can be heard hurling insults at each other, with the Ukrainian warrior angrily telling his enemy: ‘You came to [invade] my homeland’.
The already-violent scenes take a turn for the worse when the Russian soldier wins the bloody blade combat as the Ukrainian fighter falls to the ground in defeat after being slashed.
The unidentified defeated fighter, losing blood, sends a message to his mother as he takes his final breaths.
‘That’s it, Mum. Goodbye’.
In a touching turn of event, the Russian soldier then comes to the wounded fighter and kneels beside him.
The astonishing moment a wounded Ukrainian soldier and his Russian foe emotionally paid their respects to each other as the fighter took his final breaths after being slashed by Putin ‘s serviceman in a knife fight was captured on camera
The emotional moment occurred after a rare hand-to-hand combat fight that led to a knife battle between a Ukrainian soldier and a Russian soldier
The Russian soldier can be seen briefly placing a hand on his Ukrainian rival, comforting him.
‘You cut my whole body open’, the Ukrainian fighter cries out.
The Russian soldier can be seen briefly placing a hand on his Ukrainian rival, comforting him.
But as he lies wounded the Ukrainian pleads to let him die alone and salutes his Russian foe, saying: ‘I want to die myself. Thank you. You were the best fighter in the world.
‘Goodbye, you were better.’
The Russian fighter named Tuta – also wounded in the fight – backs off and tells him: ‘Goodbye.’
The Russian’s knife is clearly visible as he backs off, with blood seen on his face.
Not shown, the defeated Ukrainian pulls the pin on his hand grenade in an attempt to take his own life.
The hand grenade explosion left the Ukrainian even more wounded, with his hand blown off, but still alive.
But as he lies wounded the Ukrainian pleads to let him die alone and salutes his Russian foe, saying: ‘I want to die myself. Thank you. You were the best fighter in the world’
The footage is reported to be from Trudove, in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, believed to have been filmed in autumn but only released now
He then told the Russian to ‘finish me off’.
The footage is reported to be from Trudove, in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, believed to have been filmed in autumn but only released now.
There have been calls from Russian war channels for Tuta to be decorated for his bravery.
The sequence, which started with close range shooting and rapidly turned into a fierce knife fight, is a stark contrast from many scenes of a hi-tech war which has featured deadly hypersonic and precision missiles.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
