Oleh Petrasiuk, liaison officer with the UAF Mechanized Brigade No. 24, shot down a Russian FPV drone as it was about to strike Daphne Wesdorp, journalist with the Dutch news outlet Het Nederlands Dagblad, in Kostyantynivka (Donetsk oblast), the brigade reported in a Facebook post.
According to the brigade, Oleh Petrasiuk was accompanying the reporter as she was filming the Holy Assumption Church, destroyed by Russian shelling.
According to the Brigade No. 24, it was at that moment that a Russian drone tried to target the filming crew. Sergeant Major Oleh Petrasiuk spotted the drone and shot it down with a machine gun. This saved the lives of his comrades and the journalist, the brigade added.
The brigade posted footage of Oleh Petrasiuk shooting down the drone. In the video, the soldier explains to the journalist that it was a fiber-optic drone. He also advises her not to linger near the church and leave before the Russians try again.