Russian troops surrender to Ukrainian drones in rare footage from the frontlines

Russian troops have been surrendering to Ukrainian drones as they are forced to fight in dire conditions up and down the length of the frontline. One video shows a soldier praying to a Ukrainian drone operator not to kill him after a failed assault near Bakhmut, so instead of dropping a grenade on him, the pilot instead drops instructions for him to follow to surrender. The drone then leads the man across the battlefield to a Ukrainian trench where he puts his hands up and is taken prisoner by Kyiv’s men. A second piece of footage shows a similar scene unfolding near Avdiivka, as a lost Russian soldier begs with a drone operator not to kill him while he looks for his unit - and fortunately for him, the drone was an unarmed scout. A third video shows one of Ramzan Kadyrov’s ’TikTok soldiers’ trying to hide from a drone, also near Avdiivka, after spotting it flying above him. At first the man prays for mercy, but when he realises none is coming he runs to hide, first inside a trench, then behind a