Russia-Ukraine Crisis Ukrainian soldier Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych blows himself up to stop Russian tanks
A Ukrainian soldier blew himself up to destroy a bridge in the southern province of Kherson to halt the progress of invading Russian tanks.
Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych, a marine battalion engineer, was deployed to the Henichesk bridge when the Russian tanks started approaching the area, the Ukrainian military wrote on Facebook.
Volodymyrovych took the decision to blew himself up to stop a column of Russian tanks as realized he did not have enough time to set the fuse and get to safety.
The Ukrainian military hailed his sacrifice and described him as a hero.
"On this difficult day for our country, when the Ukrainian people give way to the Russian occupiers in all directions, one of the hardest places on the map of Ukraine was the Crimean intersection, where one of the first enemies met a separate marine battalion," read the social media post, as per a New York Post report.
Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych‘s comrades praised him for "significantly slowing down the advance of the enemy," reported The Sun.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday on all three fronts: air, water and land.
Russian troops on Friday entered the northern districts of the Ukrainian capital in a desperate bid to capture Kyiv as the besieged government of Ukraine urged citizens to make Molotov cocktails and defend the city.
The communication between Kremlin and Ukraine has come to a pause after both sides disagreed over the location for negotiations to end the conflict.
While Russia offered to hold the talks with Ukrainian officials in the Belarusian capital Minsk, Ukraine proposed Warsaw as a venue.
So far, 198 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the Russian attack, news agency AFP quoted health minister Viktor Liashko as saying.
Ukraine has said more than 1,000 Russian soldiers had been killed so far. Russia did not release casualty figures.
Following Russia's invasion, the United States and the European Union have added Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to their sanctions list as they try to build up pressure on the Kremlin.
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