A Russian soldier who gave a Ukrainian drone the middle finger soon regretted his actions when it was met with grenades dropping on his trench.
Video footage shared on social media shows the moment the unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial drone spots a Russian position in a wooded area of the battlefield.
One Russian soldier is seeing raised his middle finger, before he reaches for his rifle.
The drone then flies up and hovers over the Russians appear to panic and drop for cover.
Then around four grenades are swiftly dropped by the Ukrainian operator from above.
Some say it may have destroyed a Soviet-era Konkurs wire-guided anti-tank missile.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has named the unarmed prisoner of war who was shot dead by Russian soldiers.
Tymofii Shadura is seen in video footage in Ukrainian combat and appears to be gunned down in cold blood after saying "glory to Ukraine".
The assailants are heard saying: “You’re a bitch. Die, bitch."
In Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut, Russian forces have suffered "significant losses" in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said.
Nearly 4,000 civilians remain inside the battered eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the country’s Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday.
“As of today, less than 4,000 people remain in Bakhmut. Speaking of children, about 38 children, as far as we know, remain in Bakhmut. More than 70,000 people lived in Bakhmut, that is, 95% were evacuated. As for children, there were 12,000 of them", she said.
The head of the Wagner private military contractor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated there were somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 Ukrainian troops still in the Bakhmut area.
"Let us calmly kill this bear. Believe me, we are doing everything for this, although we are still not given ammunition, military equipment, weapons, and vehicles. Sapper shovels after almost a month, by the way, were given," he said in a Telegram post.
He also repeated his respect for Ukrainian forces, but also said that "the same blood flows in them."
"The hardest battles are going on both day and night, but the Ukrainians do not run away anywhere. ... Ukrainians are not running away. They die en masse for Bakhmut and surrender only as a last resort.
"Stop calling them cowards. They are the same as we are, and the same blood flows in them," he said.
