Brave T-shirt-wearing Ukrainian soldier fights off SIX Russians single-handedly in video showing frontline trench warfare

The infinitesimal a lone Ukrainian worker valiantly fought disconnected six Russians successful a bitter close-range weapon conflict has emerged successful the latest grounds of the savage trench warfare raging successful Eastern Europe. 

The breathless drone footage showed the azygous Ukrainian, wearing combat trousers and thing but an olive-green t-shirt, stalking on a ridge beside a web of trenches successful anticipation of a imaginable Russian assault.

Suddenly, 2 Russian soldiers taking structure successful the trench popped up and fired a volley of shots towards him from specified feet away. 

The Ukrainian, a subordinate of the 'K-2 Battalion' from Ukraine's 54th Mechanised Brigade, dove for screen and miraculously evaded the oncoming bullets earlier instantly rattling disconnected a burst of his own. 

Four much Russian soldiers were seen backing up their comrades, with the six-strong radical unleashing a torrent of pb toward the sorely outgunned Ukrainian defender. 

But helium refused to backmost down and continued shooting until an artillery ammunition streaked done the aerial and impacted adjacent the Russian position.   

Eventually, with artillery incoming and the fearless Ukrainian continuing to instrumentality fire, the Russians turned process and ran away, retreating via the trench network. 

Later successful the clip, 1 Russian who appeared to person been abandoned by his portion was stumbling done a treeline earlier being deed by an explosive charge. 

The K-2 Battalion did not uncover precisely wherever the stunning conflict was captured, but the portion was formed successful the embattled metropolis of Bakhmut successful the Donetsk portion and has taken portion successful respective of the astir aggravated conflicts successful the area.  

Meanwhile, some countries proceed to commercialized punishing aerial strikes.

Russia said this greeting its aerial defences had changeable down 8 ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine amid heightened tensions implicit Kyiv's usage of Western-supplied long-range arms against Russia.

Ukraine besides targeted a Russian substance depot portion Russian aerial attacks wounded much than 30 successful strikes connected Odesa and Kharkiv, the latest question of attacks.

The astir three-year warfare has escalated dramatically implicit the past week, with some sides deploying caller weapons arsenic they effort to unafraid an precocious manus connected the battlefield earlier Donald Trump enters the White House successful January.

The Republican has vowed to unafraid a bid deal, though has not said how, and is simply a professional of American assistance to Kyiv.

Ukraine fired US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles into Russia for the archetypal clip past week aft receiving support from Washington, prompting a furious absorption from Moscow.

'Air defence forces changeable down 8 ballistic missiles,' the Russian defence ministry said successful a regular briefing connected Monday, without saying what benignant of missiles were utilized oregon wherever they were changeable down.

Moscow and Kyiv person escalated their usage of long-range missiles aft the United States gave Ukraine approval, agelong requested by Kyiv, to usage the weapons against Russia.

Moscow fired an experimental hypersonic rocket astatine the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro past Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin informing the weapon, which helium called Oreshnik, could beryllium utilized again successful combat.

Adding to tensions, a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the Russian borderline municipality of Shebekino connected Monday killed a civilian, according to section politician Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The onslaught wounded different man, helium said, portion abstracted Ukrainian shelling damaged respective apartments.

Ukrainian drones meantime deed a substance installation successful the Russian portion of Kaluga, a root successful Ukrainian subject quality said, successful Kyiv's latest onslaught connected Moscow's vigor sites.

That assertion came arsenic Ukrainian authorities said a Russian rocket onslaught had wounded astir 2 twelve radical successful the eastbound metropolis of Kharkiv.

'As a effect of an cognition by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, a substance and vigor installation successful the Kaluga portion of Russia was deed overnight,' the root said.

The Russian politician of Kaluga, which lies conscionable southbound of the superior Moscow, said aerial defence systems successful the portion had downed 8 drones and confirmed that an 'industrial enterprise' had caught fire.

Unverified images connected societal media of the alleged onslaught showed tracer ammunition cutting done the nighttime entity and a ample blaze adjacent to 2 concern chimneys.

'The people of the onslaught was an lipid depot of Kaluganefteprodukt JSC, which is progressive successful supporting Russia's equipped aggression against Ukraine,' the root said.

Kharkiv residents and rescue workers were seen assessing the harm and clearing rubble aft the latest Russian onslaught connected the municipality that has travel nether repeated bombardments since the Kremlin launched its penetration successful aboriginal 2022.

Mayor Igor Terekhov said 23 radical had been wounded and immoderate 40 buildings were damaged, including authoritative oregon administrative offices.

The Ukrainian aerial unit said it had changeable down 71 drones - including the Iranian-designed Shahed - launched by Russian forces portion different 71 were 'presumably' downed utilizing physics jamming antiaircraft systems.

'Previously, the Shahed attacks were carried retired lone astatine night. Now the force is utilizing onslaught UAVs during the daytime arsenic well,' the aerial unit said successful its statement.

In the confederate larboard metropolis of Odesa meanwhile, authorities said a Russian onslaught had damaged infrastructure facilities and wounded 11 people.

'These Russian attacks connected Ukrainian beingness tin beryllium stopped - done pressure, sanctions, blocking the occupiers' entree to the components they usage to make the tools of this terror, subject assistance packages for Ukraine, and a determination that indispensable beryllium unwavering,' President Volodymyr Zelensky said.