With two hand grenades in his hands, a Russian soldier calls on the Ukrainians to surrender (video)
Video footage emerged of a Russian soldier holding two grenades in the air as he walked among the Ukrainians demanding their surrender.
Footage in Konotop shows the Russian soldier holding what appear to be two hand grenades over his head as he walked through a crowd of angry Ukrainians chanting "Shame".
Others told the Moscow men, "Don't go around showing your grenade," while others crowded around the soldier, seemingly oblivious to the danger of grenades.
The soldier was in the city on the southern coast of Ukraine to negotiate with the residents the Ukrainian surrender after the city was besieged.
He reportedly spoke with Mayor of Konotop Artem Semenikhin and gave an ultimatum - surrender or fight.
Semenikhin, speaking from the city center after the Russian soldiers left, can be heard asking residents what option they want, to which the Ukrainians replied: "Of course we're fighting."
It comes as Russian forces on Thursday morning captured their first major city in Ukraine with Putin's forces now in control of Kherson - a regional capital of 300,000 people located on the Black Sea.
Russian forces cordoned off major cities such as Chernihiv, in the northwest, and Mariupol in the south, as well as Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine's two largest cities - although all remained under Ukrainian control by Thursday morning.
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