UKRAINE Severely wounded soldier on the battlefield decided to end his own life rather than continue to suffer. After an explosion of an explosive dropped from a drone amputated both of his legs, he crawled to an unexploded drone and detonated it near his head. This explosion killed him on the spot. Similar footage is, unfortunately, a daily reality of every war, not just the one in Ukraine.
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