WATCH | Russian soldiers get blown off after their ATV hits Ukrainian mine in Donbas while fleeing drones, shows viral video

Landmines are a terrible way to go on a battlefield. Chances are, the unlucky soldiers may get blown into pieces if they step on a big one. While one may survive a low-intensity anti-personnel mine blast, losing a limb, soldiers on foot or in vehicles are almost certain to get killed if they detonate one while navigating the death roads of the battlefield.

Traumatising videos of soldiers being killed by UAV drones, shells and even close-contact combat have flooded the internet ever since the invasion of Ukraine began. Both sides have been releasing such videos for propaganda purposes where you see hapless soldiers fall prey to incoming enemy fire. In one such video that has surfaced on the internet in recent days, a couple of Russian soldiers are seen killed in a landmine blast.

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The viral video, reportedly from Donbas, shows two Russian personnel driving an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) through an open field. They carefully navigate through the bushy field, not driving in a straight line as if to avoid enemy kamikaze drones. We see them avoiding a smaller explosion before driving straight into a mine. The video, which THE WEEK could not independently verify, captured the moment the two Russian soldiers drove into certain death with the driver’s eye fixed to the sky. The explosion bloomed into a fiery flower, engulfing their ATV completely. It is likely that the soldiers were more worried about the threat from the sky than those planted below the ground.

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However, some users doubted if it was an enemy drone after all that caught up with the Russians. The quality of the undated viral video is not great, making it impossible for the naked eye to verify the claim.

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Russia controls most of Donbas in eastern Ukraine since 2014. According to reports, Moscow controls about 88% of the Donbas region as defined by pre-war boundaries. Some of the remaining Ukrainian-held territory is under severe threat and bombardment. Civilians in frontline cities are suffering from regular shelling, drone / missile strikes.