Moment A Russian Shell Lands Next To An RFE/RL Crew In Ukraine
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- An RFE/RL film crew was caught in the moment a Russian shell hit them while covering the frontline in Ukraine. The incident occurred as journalist Roman Pahulych and cameraman Pavlo Kholodov were filming a Ukrainian drone team. Two Ukrainian soldiers were injured in the explosion. The reporters under fire captured the Russian strike on camera.
Via @RadioSvobodaUkraine
#ukrainewar #ukrainenews #ukrainerussiawar #rfe_rl #russiaukrainewar
That was one close call. Wow.
"Dit was balhaardiktes" we say in Afrikaans! 😂
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q Kokols do the same when the shelling or drones get intense.
is isreal allied with Ukraine? I feel isreal should form an alliance with Ukraine since they both face the same problem with common enemy
@@HuiYingHong-b8q They have relations and I believe they are cooperation more lately. If they start engaging in close military/intelligence activities it will be kept very secret, I believe. Secret like Israel's pagers plot.
that’s how it kills you, shrapnels ... even if you are meters away. People need to understand that Russia is not playing games.
I never thought they were. Russians are deadly af.
Yup so true! I watched a video where a Russian was walking alone and grenades were being dropped close to him from drones. It looked like all explosions missed him, but he lost his eye, and I don't know if he made it out of there. Shrapnel is no joke.
😂😂😂 They are so funny, First They are dancing by western propaganda media willingly they are polished own minds ,
Second they elected comedian president free from political and economic knowledge ,
After that they trying to fight with stone wall 👀
Even they don’t know how & why useless war is coming ?
Who tried to solve my negotiation & peace meeting before war ?
Nothing 😂😂😂
They just fucked blindly
Off course today few people trying to ask where are they family going to front line & asking own government should working for peace & negotiation!
Too late ⏰
@@mrdan2898 which more letal ? granede or artillery shell?
@@wbroderick3237 The fragments from both are deadly, but an artillery shell is way more lethal.
They have probably been spotted. It was a very precise strike.
Yeah, time to relocate......
on the other hand, russia's accuracy is only unmatched on civil targets....
/s
@@boahneelassmal they don't look like civil targets to me
@@aliasriki4205 that's the joke. it's a stray, no need to relocate....
@@boahneelassmalhey - where you get this information? From your mind ???
"his cameraman kholodov was uninjured"
what did you expect? he is the cameraman after all
😂facts
Accuracy at its best
Блин..чуток промахнулся.. спасибо за лица...теперь они точно не повара и связисты.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Cringe... You realize that you watch censored media that wouldnt show you death of the camerman right? Too many of them recorded their own death...
No joke this war is. Im complaining in my head about not getting my ebay ring fast enough in the mail that i don't even need nor probably won't even wear and these people are fighting extinction. What a pathetic civilian i am. Powerful footage to make me wake up to the seriousness of evil humans in power.
Very well said
sadly the only thing a person can do is put their money and mouth where their mind is
Before the war my 74 year old dad said that people he knows dying and it was surprising for him 10 years ago and now he kind of got used to it, but I could not comprehend how can it be, and now I am not surprized too, only few years after the war started in Ukraine if someone I know died here, not just by the war but overall, I don't like it
fighting extinction? lmao so melodramatic
@@gustavalexander8676 what else do you call it when children are kidnapped and brainwashes and the men and women graped and killed?
It's said you won't hear the one that gets you. I now totally understand 😮
yeah...no time to hide , They all owe that tree some love
You will probably hear it, but you will also be dead a second later.
If it's travelling faster than the speed of sound, yes.
You have like 1-2 seconds to react but unless you have a hole next to you there’s no way you can survive it
@@eliotmashwitz8270, that's not 1-2 seconds. More like less than half of a second.
Very nice shovel!
Poor Oak 😢
It was a washing machine....
Не это лопата с чипом от стиралки.
Such professionalism from everyone there, that could have been so much worse.
Yeah the girl stopped the shell very professional with her face. Incredible talent
You can hear the shell being shot right before it hits. It was a Ukrainian shell shot from a (probably malfunctioned) artillery piece. If it was a Russian shell there would be quite some time between the shot and the shell landing, or the only sound would be of the shell exploding.
you have little brain🤏 @@WladimirLenin-v6b
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@RedBlackDishNo, try again.
“That’s the Oak Tree that saved us...” Wow.
Nature saves us but we don't save Nature
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8qвы смотрите не те каналы, русские вывозят раненых под обстрелами и дронами,,,
@@HuiYingHong-b8q BS much?
@@HuiYingHong-b8q you keep repeating your BS. in this kind of scenario their is no need to run from your comrades but it some situations they leave you and it happens to both Ukrainians and Russians.
Well this is what Ukrainians were doing to the Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians in the East of Ukraine before Russia intervened.
5 rubles have been deposited in your bank account
Now that's what you call a lucky escape.
Понравилось как переводят с украинского на русский бойцу)
Мойва сложна для вкликой "це нации"
@@КостюмчёрныйНиочень ...её осилят не только лишь все!
Дебилизм как он есть🐷🐖🐽
Cameraman never dies !
Yes!!
Unfortunately, the press has a few hundred names of cameramen/women who have.
Alec Baldwin say no. 😂
It's because most dead cameraman's footage never reaches to youtube
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
Idk why, but I find it really fascinating that war footage is so widely available nowadays
This is why gaoza gonna have hundred of years impact in geopolitics. Its the most well documented jen no side in history of man.
Russia is always creating quality content.
That was absolutely terrifying
That girl could have lost her eye , wow
No boring
That dude with a literal hole in his stomach held up and looked better than the time I gave blood and passed out right after vomiting on myself.
It's not as bad because when you donate blood, that's a very quick relative loss of blood. And it's definitely more loss than what he experienced there.
You also don't produce adrenaline when giving blood. Adrenaline really makes a person overperform casually
Need to STOP sending women 0:24 into these war zones. That scar will be there for a long time, maybe even life. Facial scarring don't go away that easily.
🤣
Lol morons
Holy shit that was lucky.
Holy shit! That's the term I was looking for but you beat me to it.
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q The Russian would have done the same. Stop saying bullshit like that it's useless.
@@pauline3775 are u sure? i see hundred of this vid when they abandon comrades, and what youhave, what argument? only "stop saying bullshit"? very impressive...
@@Monkits1tvpI have seen lot of videos ukrainian abandoning their teams, they are good here due to the reporter and TV cameraman
Браво Россия! 🇷🇺
Brawo brawo przynajmniej znamy morderców!!! Już nikt nigdy nie powie że wańka jest dobry!!!!
Вы радуетесь, когда убивают людей?
@@lembitkalamees7731 никто там никого не держит на войне... все хотят днег, эта блевотная война не о чем особенно для ураинцев
@lembitkalamees7731 Нелюдей!
@@denisbabaskin Да, именно так. С российской стороны идиотов становится все меньше и меньше, и это хорошо. Уже 3 миллиона рублей предлагают за то, чтобы пойти на фронт, но желающих все меньше и меньше.
Thank you for your excellent front line coverage.
holy shit...
Россия 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 сила 💪💪💪
В чем заключается его сила?
@lembitkalamees7731 Сила в том что за Россией правда 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 , ваша слабость в том ,что вы просто шерсть торгашей , ну а там где торгаши не ждите справедливости вы .
@@hilmes-n4k Сила России заключается в том, что в настоящее время проводится полная приватизация российских государственных активов. В ней участвуют только американские и европейские компании. Никогда еще в истории России не было такого быстрого сокращения населения. В стране уже более 15 миллионов азиатских мигрантов, и эта цифра продолжает расти. Сибирские территории постепенно переходят под контроль Китая. Нефть и газ продаются в Европу через другие страны, большая часть нефтепродуктов идет в Китай. Другими словами, полная зависимость от Китая и Европы. Большинство месторождений полезных ископаемых находятся в руках западных компаний, сырье которых вывозится из России по дешевке. Рождаемость в России никогда не была такой низкой. Наблюдается деградация образования, культуры. Молодые люди стараются покинуть страну при первой же возможности, потому что не видят в ней будущего. Почти во всех развитых странах есть большие русские общины - эмигранты. Список можно продолжать. И учитывая все это, вам все равно нужно искать врага извне, ваш враг сидит в вашей стране, неужели это трудно понять. Ваша сила заключается в беспрецедентной шизофрении. 500 лет вы шипите под еврейской оккупацией и до сих пор не понимаете. Невероятный народ, русский народ.
@@lembitkalamees7731сила - в Правде. За кем Правда, тот и сильней.
That oak was a lifesaver .
Наоборот, благодаря русскому дубу осколки разлетелись выше и в большем колличестве. 🤙
The horror of war in words like ‘I can’t feel my right foot’ or ‘He my have internal bleeding’. The look in the eyes of the injured.
You just had to ad the "the cameraman was uninjured" at the end, didnt you? Fueling the meme, day by day.
quiff
Stating the obvious.
Wow what a beautiful video....
This terrible war has to stop!
Stop feeding Zelensky and the war will be over.
Борис сказал до последнего украинца
@@РусланБарсик-д7р Very true. Boris Johnson did indeed sabotage a peace treaty that would have ended the war between Russia and Ukraine. As a result hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died.
Green t-shirt only has to surrender and war will stop.
Contrary to what many believe, the initial “boom” you hear isn’t the sound of the howitzer itself firing, but the sound of the incoming round breaking the sound barrier, most often times howitzers are miles or more from their target, so you wouldn’t hear the sound of the initial shot
If the incoming round is supersonic, then it'll hit you before its sound reaches you.
If you hear the sonic boom of the incoming round, then you already just survived its impact.
@@massimookissed1023 In this case it could be clearly heard before it exploded. Shells slow down after leaving the muzzle so whether you hear them or not depends how far you from the gun.
That British or American EOD bloke in ukraine said if you hear it, it's already gone over your head.
the shrapnel shows that it's a mortar round.
A precise shot can only be achieved with the help of a drone.
@@kieffer9705BS
Любишь бандэру,люби и эскандэру!!!
Репарации прилетели
Вместе с контрибуциями)))
I've seen that drone pilot in another documentary, he is a hardened soldier and took that shrapnel like a champion.
Ukrainian has the bravest soul.
@@josephgee2515 Putin is the only Nazi. He brings war to his neighbours because he is jealous of their toys. Like a little crybaby. Crybaby Putler.
@@josephgee2515You're crazy. Get a life.
@@josephgee2515 Shouldn’t you be with your mates on the Times of India or The Hindustan Times comrade?
Nice joke
@@JamesMurphy-ry2mx What kind of Gay Subliminals are you saying?? 🤔
I'd not have thought someone could survive at such a close distance to such a large explosion.
Oak save all lifes!!!
это совсем не сильный взрыв. Судя по осколкам, это мина из 82-мм носимого миномета 2Б14 "Поднос". Дальность выстрела от 85 м до 3,9 км. В мине 400 грамм взрывчатки.
That tree probably saved their life. It caused the shell to explode 40 feet further back.
Thank you for the great work you are all doing.
What , dying for some corrupt politicians?
@@AngesCoughMedicinethis is what russian idiots are doing in Ukraine
@@AngesCoughMedicine deffending their nation in a war for their exsistance. If it weren't for them russia would have taken over their whole country. Rus can dream for the map of old but its no more.
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q uki bot
I wonder how much difference the oak tree made. Thank you RFE/RL for the brave reporting. Long live Ukraine. And long live oak trees.
The shell hit the tree and exploded. If the tree hadn't been there then the shell would have continued on for a direct hit on the men. The tree did save their lives.
@@mrjackpots1326 Then I can only repeat long live oak trees.
@@Julian-zj2qy i can only repeat.. ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ РОДИНА!
and the tree probably survived lol
@@基蘇木 kakaya rodina chuvak
The trolls never stop do they? Glory to Ukraine, the strongest country on Earth right now.
I don't know know about them being the strongest, but they are some of the finest for sure. Shame they are lead by a stupid leader. Of it weren't for NATO proping them up, they would have lost by now. They are already out of men in the fronlines, and conscription is prov8ng to be a challenge. Many have fled the country and entered into neighbouring NATO countries.
LOL! 😂😂😂
Time for negotiations and peace.
Neo nazis and a jew president?
You’re losing bad , your people are dying and yet you continue to encourage death by cheerleading them on
That's a whole life's worth of Good Luck all in one go!
Stay strong defenders!
clown its ukranians is not defenders ... they start war in 2014 ...and now they be illiminated all
most of them arent anymore sadly
In sky 😅
@@notforrestbono3100 and even less so with the russians...but heck, most russians run, like they did at Kyiv, Kherson...
Cannon fodder... unfortunately...
War is hell!!
oh yes you are absolutely right it is a real hell, I don't know if you had a chance to feel war if not thank God. I wouldn't wish such an experience even on my enemy, it's horrible especially when artillery is working from morning till night without stopping, it's scary to the point of nausea...
Prayers for all you brave hearts!
You have been praying for Ukraine for the last 2 years. Seems like God doesn't listen to prayers of the West homosexual churches 🏳️🌈
💙💛Slava Ukraine💙💛
Respect how cool they are
Вы за что там сражаетесь , вас они к себе не возьмут , всё что вам они обещали , всё они у вас вместе с жизнью ваших детей заберут.
0:17 was that a wireless notification of some kind? I've often wondered how signals-quiet visitors to front lines are. Russia is a space-going nation, you'd have to be very careful about limiting even directional radio signals, let alone ones designed to always work in every direction.
It doesn't get much closer than that does it? I hope everyone recovered to at worst scars and stories level.
Might have been, if the media team didn't have their phones turned off. Yes Russian sig-int is very good.
I'm glad they all survived this situation and hope for future luck also.
Слава Україні 🇺🇦🔱
Героям слава 🇺🇦💪🏻
Слава ЗСУ 🇺🇦🚀
Stay safe all of you. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Slava cocaine
Imagine you have a covered trench but you're standing outside in a war zone without a helmet....And then they complain about running out of people. You can't make it up.
Wear your PPE all the time, sleep in it.
what is PPE, dude?
@@chrisrobbie8675 personal protective equipment.....
Head is most vulnerable human body area, almost everyone in the impact zone was without helmet they have more luck than brains as the saying goes.
@@penclaw Yeah exactly! Several of them also had head injuries from shrapnel.
amazing footage
BRUTAL!
This event take “camerman never dies to whole new level”
Seven words or more for the algorithm. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Heroyam slava!
Героям слава!
I thought it was 3 words?
@@nikiTricoteuse I’m no expert but that’s what I’ve been told. Regards!
Salo v kokaine!
Brother handled himself well.. Maybe getting older does it, but they all look like kids to me.. Glad they walked away from this..
No scream, no panic. Damn, everyone move in one coordination. How horror that condition was
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q idk about Russian when they hold the medic. Its pretty rare to see the footage about Russia treat/medic evac while Ukraine have dozens of it. So who am i to judge?
@@zaimukhrowi6454 is isreal allied with Ukraine? I feel isreal should form an alliance with Ukraine since they both face the same problem with common enemy
@@HuiYingHong-b8q nice try propagandist.
human being learn fast and they are in war from 3 years they are used to of listening to these voices
Sometimes in life, you don’t go looking for problems-problems come looking for you.
Be safe. The hate is real. Slava democracy in the Ukraine.
Slava president whose term ended 😂
@@JakubPyrachewsky you mean the 🍊 Putin hand puppet?
@@JakubPyrachewsky slava Putin with 111% of all votes on him
@@ericcallender1575 he isnt incorrect, ukraine is currently a dictatorship out of neccessity. It may return to democracy to after the war, it might not, only the future will tell
@@ericcallender1575 20 May 2024 Clown 😁
bet that girl is bleeding in ways she never thought could
Она узнала что мужчины тоже могут быть атакованы.
Slava Ukraine! ❣
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
Ещё не вспомнили что славяне один народ? Ну бейтесь дальше!!!
В этих правды нету,продали они себя и свою веру, за это и лягут в землю.а в гейропе только руки потирают и смотрят на это как на театр.
can anyone tell what caliber was this? the shrapnel from that one guys boot looks like a smaller diameter than the common 155mm shell.
the one who got hit in the stomach, i guess he was the one standing right next to the reporter? hope they all recovered well
Russia doesn’t use 155mm rounds. They do use 152mm rounds. Someone pointed out how the angle of the impact means it’s a mortar (so probably 120mm) but I can’t see the shell incoming so take that with a grain of salt
Correction: it’s a howitzer
@@Ranyick No, you cant survive a howitzer from that distance. impossible...this was a tiny 82 mm round. A 120mm or even 152 mm round would pulverise that tree. That clip shows how deadly mortars can be.
@@WladimirLenin-v6b the angle of impact doesn’t make sense if it’s a mortar. There is an 82mm gun mortar, but it’s automatic and always fired in bursts so that wouldn’t be it either
Thank God for Oak trees.
The fact that it's still standing after a direct hit just shows the power and resilience of nature
@@unskilled822 Oak is a very dense fiber tree. Softwood trees would not be standing.
@@seanwatts8342 that very same shell could have wrecked most tanks and ifv in a single shot and it was certainly aimed at the group seen in the video it just didnt land where it was intended, its very curious how sometimes such small details make up for something more intricate that messes up completely the result
@@unskilled822 Funny how it works sometimes.
Gives me a glimpse into what my grandfather must have experienced, in ww1, Vimy.
History repeating.
Heart breaking.
Uraaa Russia.
0:06 slow-mo playback speed and u can actually see that the shell smacked right into the tree taking away the direct hit.. else.. everyone there would be in real deep shit.
as they always say, the cameraman never dies...
That tree did save them🙏
that's probably lifelong hearing damage if a shell explodes that close next to you, too. The flesh may heal but the headaches and the hearing loss from the overpressure of the blast is staying with you for life. Of course that's better than being hit directly and getting scattered across the forest.
Even the trees are on Ukraine's side.
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q Kokol.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q BS
@@HuiYingHong-b8qjust like they abandoned you and and your mother?
Yeah the tree just ran up to block the shell. Very brave tree.
Say hi to your CIA bosses "radio freedom" hahahaha
Brave people
Russia needs to leave Ukraine in peace
You mean the 14,000 people in Donbas killed by Ukraine before Russias mission of free Donbas?
This is wishful thinking.
@@angeurbain6129 Putin will lose the war! Thus Not wishful thinking!
Why did Ukraine not leave the Russian people alone in 2014?
Looser talking too much 😅😅😅 but heroes working in silently !
Ukraine have no chance continue in a sovereign
“AM IMHURT!!??”
“Where u filming when it hit???”
“YES!!!”
“Then ur fine!”
God bless you.
More proof that “the cameraman never dies”. So glad everyone is ok and nobody got too seriously wounded.
Get well soon!
Close…to close…😳
WELCOME TO THE COMBAT CREW
You are just standing around in war zone?
bruh it is miles away from the front
It’s war, you can’t just stay underground 24-7 and hide from possible artillery or drone attacks.
@@Rawarart No, that IS the front. They are in the grey zone. The front in ukraine is gigantic.
Stay safe and get well soon. How danger at battlefield. Just a couple meters away.
Good grief! That could have been so much worse. Slava Ukraini from Scotland, UK. May Ukraine be 100% free.
Free from Nazis.. no.. Ukrainians are the Nazis
May Scotland be 100% free.
At least Ukraine soldiers have emphaty. Imagine if this were to happen to Russian soldiers they will just abandon their own comarade and leave them to die.
@@HuiYingHong-b8q Это тебе Бандера на ушко шепнул?
Шотландцы, держитесь там, обязательно поможем, но потом
What are you looking for? In a country where national hero is Bandera?? Where is your brain..
War is a dirty business. This is what happen when your enemy have an overwhelming superiority in artillery.
That's what's called being in the wrong place at the wrong time
🇬🇧🙏🏻🇺🇦
No
@@nafok1ller could have been worse, could have been pathetic russians :)
Вы следующие...
@@pavlovskih1 Could be worse, could be a pathetic russian, like the typ who ran from Kyiv, Kherson...
@@slicklandy7819 Like UK in Irak and Middle East? Jjajajajaj
That was scary, thank God the oak took most of the impact. Be careful and stay safe everyone.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Slava ukraini heros qvick rekovery too you all❤️
Which moment? Is it a moment or the moment?
Glory to the heroes.
Слава Україні!
Jajajajja
@@TheTruthHz yap
The cameraman never gets injured.
When are we really gonna help UA?
Are we not? My country spent more on helping Ukraine than on our own army
When are you going to get a clue?
As an Israeli combat medic in my past, that's some folks that know their art.
STOP THIS ABSURDITY WAR!!
Супер 👏 скоро прогоним НАТО с Украины и земель русских!
Camera man never dies
No point blurring the forest, uncensored is already out there and everyone knows where this was
where was it then mate? I'm unsure.
The Russians often fire artillery blind or just at random where there might be Ukrainian positions. If they could geolocate and figure the time from this video, they could correlate to who fired where and get the location. Well... Western armies and Ukrainians could, Russians are usually too sloppy, but it never hurts to be to careful.
@@obsidianjane4413 👈Dumb opinion №1🏆.
@@obsidianjane4413 Brother, that didn't look like a barrage, it was a really precise shot. Their location is proably known.
@obsidianjane4413 you've been huffing propaganda. Why did the artillery stop when they went into the bunker? Because they're being watched by a drone. Nobody blindly shoots artillery in ANY army. You've convinced yourself otherwise so you don't freak out over Russia gaining land every single day.
Hope your all ok
Glad everyone is alright.
Now they can tell the Russians they “missed”
imagine being with a drone team and then complaining about artillery hitting you.
some radio activity from filming crew ?
Could be, mobile activity as well. More likely they were spotted.
could have also simply gotten spotted due to the higher number of people, a drone pilot might miss 1 or 2 guys standing around but 5-6?
Drone spotted them?
radio crew might had their phones active and connected.
If that tree wasn’t there they would all be gone
Western media Russia is out of ammunitions and yesterday alone they captured 52 km square in a single day
В это же время, США за всю войну в Ираке выпустили меньше снарядов, чем Россия выпускает по Украине за пару дней.
Agitators, don't interfere, your propaganda is not needed.😂