Published January 11,2025
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday awarded a soldier with the nation’s highest honour for bravery after a extensively posted video confirmed him killing a Ukrainian opponent in hand-to-hand fight.
Putin awarded Corporal Andrei Grigoryev the Hero of Russia medal for his “courage and heroism”, the Kremlin stated in a press release.
Russian army bloggers this month posted a video purportedly shot by a digital camera on the helmet of a Ukrainian soldier.
According to Russian and Ukrainian media experiences, the footage was truly filmed final yr.
In the video, the soldier carrying the digital camera walks towards a home, then an alternate of fireside begins and he throws a hand grenade into the constructing. A Russian soldier comes out and the 2 males start preventing with naked fingers and knives.
The soldier with the digital camera shouts for assist in Ukrainian and on the finish of the video lastly asks his opponent to let him die in peace, saying: “Goodbye, mum.”
Pro-Kremlin media recognized the Russian soldier as Grigoryev from the far-eastern Arctic area of Sakha — also referred to as Yakutia — the place Yakuts, a Turkic individuals, are the biggest ethnic group.
Ukrainian media recognized the soldier killed as Dmytro Maslovsky from the southern Odesa area.
On Telegram, the pinnacle of Sakha, Aisen Nikolayev, confirmed he met Grigoryev in individual on Saturday, hailing his “exploit” and describing him as “very modest”.
He stated he gave Grigoryev a conventional Yakut knife as a thank-you current.
“People like him make our great Russia stronger,” Nikolayev stated.
Russia has focused a few of its most distant and ethnically numerous areas to recruit troopers to battle in opposition to Ukraine, providing excessive frontline pay.
Source: www.anews.com.tr