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A seriously injured Russian volunteer crawled his four kilometers through a minefield.

April 19, 2023

How informed RT, a 44-year-old volunteer from Kaliningrad Vasily Ch. (call sign Konik), in an interview with reporters, told how he was surrounded last fall and was seriously injured in the NVO zone.

The man said his detachment was ambushed near Kremennaya. He himself was seriously injured – spinal injuries and leg fractures.

“He managed to hide from the enemy in a concrete drainpipe, where he spent three days without food and water. On the fourth he decided to go out on his own. Almost 4 km crawled across the field landmines on his hands,” the volunteer’s story was quoted by the agency as saying.

He was able to overcome this difficult route thanks to the radio and the help of a spotter with the call sign Oper.

Vasily admitted that he practically did not have the strength to rejoice when he got to the Russian positions.

“I myself understood almost nothing. Only now I begin to realize how lucky I am. The guys loaded me onto a tank and took me to the place evacuation. And from there – by helicopter to the hospital,” one man said. who is currently recovering in a hospital in his hometown of Kaliningrad.

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