Ukraine General Staff posts Russian how-to video for guided surrender using quadcopter drone

The Ukraine General Staff has published a video instruction for the Russian troops on how to surrender using a Ukrainian quadcopter drone. The video, with detailed instructions in Russian, is posted on the General Staff Facebook page.

Russian troops looking to surrender must notify the coordinators of the Ukrainian I Want to Live program, who will give them a time window for the drone’s arrival. Once the quadcopter appears, servicemen must confirm their intent to surrender by raising their arms, and then follow the drone towards a meeting point with the Ukrainian troops.

The Ukrainian side thinks that using drones to mediate surrenders will help make the procedure safer.

On November 18, video footage showing the execution of at least 10 Russian captives by the Ukrainian military near the village of Makiivka circulated on Telegram. The Russian authorities announced that they would look for the “perpetrators of this crime.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the Ukrainian Chief of Staff, claimed that Kyiv was in possession of a full version of the alleged POW execution video. He said that, while some of the Russian soldiers in the video wanted to surrender, others opened fire on the Ukrainian military.

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