An infantryman of the 43rd Mechanized Brigade resorted to an extraordinary stunt in a trench battle to seize the initiative and killed the invader.

The 43rd Mechanized Brigade’s press service released the video of the incident.

The brigade’s soldiers, supported by the strike drones of the Achilles Regiment, fought Russian troops who were advancing as part of a mechanized group and trying to push the defense of the Defense Forces in the Kharkiv region.

Together, with the help of artillery and drones, the Ukrainian military managed to destroy an enemy BTR-80, two infantry fighting vehicles, a T-80BVM tank, and a truck, eliminating a significant part of the enemy forces. Still, some enemy infantry managed to get into the defenders’ positions.

In the trenches themselves, the enemy infantry was met with heavy fire by a Ukrainian fighter, who drove the enemy under the cover of a parapet.

To lure out the surviving invader, the fighter threw a helmet he had picked up from the ground toward the soldier, which the latter probably mistook for an explosive device, and rushed to the exit, where he was shot dead.

The Ukrainian WarArchive analytical project has geolocated the positions from the video near the P07 highway south of the village of Kotlyarivka, 20 kilometers from Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.

The Russians continue to pressure the Defense Forces, trying to move closer to Kupiansk. Fighting off the enemy attacks is complicated by poor logistics due to ambushes by Russian drones and artillery strikes.

The 43rd Brigade’s press service recently released a photo of unmanned systems operators delivering drinking water to soldiers on the ground using bomber drones. In this way, drones sometimes remain the only uninterrupted tool to support soldiers on the front line.

Militarnyi previously reported about the Azov Brigade medics operation who saved the life of a seriously wounded serviceman by delivering blood for transfusion directly into the trench using drones.

“The soldier received a severe shrapnel wound to the neck. Heavy blood loss, complicated evacuation, minimal chances of survival – due to these conditions, doctors made a radical decision,” the brigade reported.

Blood transfusion in the trenches was a key factor in the soldier’s survival, as he was in serious condition at the position for about 10 hours from the moment he was wounded until evacuation.