A Ukrainian infantryman cut off his own leg to survive alone on the front line for over 200 days before becoming the first soldier to be evacuated by aerial drone in the history of warfare.
Kostiantyn Vlasenko endured 491 days in the killzone, first hiding in a cramped concrete pipeline with comrade ‘Baski’ as swarms of Russian drones prevented their rescue.
They were forced out after eight months when the pipe flooded last winter and hid in an abandoned school before Baski was killed on his 50th birthday.
Russia sent in a speaker telling him to surrender but the 49-year-old infantryman responded with
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