Unarmed Ukrainian citizens filmed confronting Russian soldiers

Unarmed Ukrainian residents have been filmed confronting Russian troopers throughout the nation amid the invasion.

Verified social media movies present various residents protesting within the faces of armed troops, and blocking roads via cities.

One clip reveals demonstrators gathering within the captured southern metropolis of Melitopol to proceed angrily defying Russian forces.

Unarmed civilians confronted off towards Russian army autos, some throwing themselves on the bottom to dam the street whereas others used their naked fingers to attempt to halt the autos.

One other video from the principle sq. of a close-by resort metropolis, Berdyansk, mirrors the scene.

Native residents — some aged — could be seen carrying Ukrainian flags and singing the nationwide anthem as they encircle Russian occupiers. One clip reveals a person talking on to a Russian soldier, stood only a few metres away.

“What? Will you shoot me? Go forward, I wouldn’t have something. Go forward, are you not our brothers?” he asks.

“Go forward, we’re unarmed. Why did you come right here? Go away if you are alive.”

Many civilians describe the Russian troopers as exhausted younger conscripts, however the claims haven’t been confirmed.

Different verified movies have additionally proven fierce, surprising resistance on the bottom to Russian troopers. One reveals a Ukrainian driver jokingly providing to tow Russian tanks again throughout the border after they had run out of gasoline, whereas others present Ukrainian farmers’ tractors dragging Russian autos away via the countryside.

Russian state media have continued to painting the Kremlin narrative that Russia has launched a “army operation” to “denazify” Kyiv. Ukraine has been labelled by Moscow as a “failed state” that poses an existential menace to Russia and had been accountable for eight years of genocide. These claims are unfounded.

Some state-controlled media even report that Russian forces will probably be welcomed by residents, corresponding to when Soviet forces liberated the area from Nazi management through the Second World Struggle.

However verified social media movies present a really completely different actuality.

As an alternative, Russian troopers are being confronted and instructed that they themselves are Nazis, who’ve entered a rustic the place the federal government was democratically elected and the President himself is Jewish.

Ukraine’s foremost cities have come beneath intense bombardment from Vladimir Putin’s forces, with the second-largest metropolis Kharkiv beneath a sustained assault.

The Russian army has denied focusing on residential areas regardless of plentiful proof of shelling of houses, colleges and hospitals

Ukraine’s emergency service has stated greater than 2,000 civilians have now been killed because the invasion started, however even in captured cities and cities, unarmed residents are nonetheless resisting their invaders.