Ukrainian soldier downs Russian cruise missile with nothing but a machine gun
Story by Tom Sanders • 1h ago
A Ukrainian soldier managed to shoot down a Russian cruise missile en route to Kyiv with nothing but a machine gun.
Russia launched one of its biggest barrages yet against Ukraine this week, hitting several major cities and wiping out large swathes of its power grid.
But in a small suburb just outside of Kyiv, a Ukrainian Territorial Defence volunteer nicknamed ‘Kipesh’ spotted a missile flying overhead and blasted it with a mounted machine gun, sending sparks flying off the rocket before it crashed into a nearby field.
The remnants of the mangled missile were later found smouldering in a heap and the young soldier was pictured clutching what looked like the wing of a cruise missile.
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