The same day the man from Yakutia Region gave an interview to RT describing the circumstances of the deadly hand-to-hand fight with a Ukrainian soldier
Elon Musk has commented on a video of a Russian soldier who killed a Ukrainian servicemember with a knife in intense hand-to-hand combat, which went viral earlier this week. On Friday, the Russian soldier, an ethnic Yakut, gave an interview to RT, after several Russian Telegram channels shared a highly disturbing eight-minute body-cam video filmed near the village of Trudovoye in Russia’s Donetsk Region that dates back to last autumn.
In the clip, the now-deceased Ukrainian servicemember approaches a dilapidated building and engages in a short-range frenetic firefight with a Russian soldier. The two end up in hand-to-hand combat, with the body-cam wearer succumbing after being stabbed several times.
As the Ukrainian lies bleeding on the ground, he is heard telling the Russian: “Let me …