Russian doctors had to do something very unusual to get a mortar shell out of the back of a soldier.
As the surgery was done without a general anesthetic, the Russian soldier could be heard saying, “It hurts.”
BAZA media said that the shell’s tail hit him and got stuck in him.
A soldier’s unexploded shell is removed from his back by medical staff at a makeshift military hospital in Russia.
After the shell is taken off the Russian soldier’s back, the shell’s tail can be seen.
A Russian military doctor shows the tail of a shell that was taken out of the back of a soldier.
The Russian soldier is sitting on the operating table. The shell has just been removed.
The unnamed soldier, who was fighting in Vladimir Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine, told the doctor not to touch the projectile because it could explode.
But when the surgeons pulled the tail out with their hands, it did not explode.
“Would you please show the shell?” asked a member of the team filming the procedure in a makeshift hospital near the war front line.
He put it on the table for the camera.
The report said, “The shell was taken out, the hole was stitched up, and the patient is now getting better.”
After a similar operation this month, in which surgeons wore body armor to save the life of a Russian soldier who had a grenade stuck inside him, this one was the next one.
Junior Sergeant Nikolay Pasenko, who was 41 years old, was hit by a Ukrainian attack, and a piece of unexploded ammunition from an automatic grenade launcher got stuck below his heart.
In a makeshift Russian hospital, doctors try to get an exploded shell out of the back of a soldier.
The shell’s tail is twisted to try to get it out of the wounded soldier, who was afraid it might explode.
The bullets broke his ribs, hurt a lung, and got stuck near his spine between the aorta and the largest vein in the body, the inferior vena cava.
After X-rays showed the deadly bomb, the gunner was at first reluctant to have it taken out.
“I didn’t like it. I didn’t want the doctors to be hurt because the bombs could have gone off,’ Pasenko said.
But the surgery went well, led by Lt. Col. Dmitry Kim, who didn’t listen to the soldier’s warning that he might blow up on the operating table.