Unlike the Athenian running hero, the nameless Russian warrior didn’t run to deliver happy tidings. Rather, he fled from a Ukrainian drone. The apparently unarmed aircraft remained stubbornly on his heels.
Unfortunately, neither the location of the recording nor the complete distance covered by the two are documented. In any case, the fact is that the timid Russian may not be a good soldier or a brave marksman, but he is a passable athlete.
The serious background of the scene was now explained by an advisor to President Silenskyj, Igor Novikov, in a conversation with the US-US news channel MSNBC: According to this, the Ukrainians would use freely available drones, which, however, externally resemble those from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator” films : “This (is) a clever, creative solution that our soldiers found to not waste ammunition, not to waste artillery shells,” said Novikov.
And further: “Well, it looks incredibly scary. Then they fly this drone around the place where the Russian soldiers are. What would you do if you were a Russian soldier? You run. where are you running to You run to your mom. Because you don’t have your mama, you run to your base. And so they lead us to their bases and no camouflage works against that, and then our artillery just fires at the base. And we don’t waste shells.”
