Watch a Russian Soldier Surrender to a Ukrainian Drone in Bakhmut | WSJ

Russian soldier Ruslan Anitin was one of the last fighters alive in his unit on the front lines of Bakhmut after Ukrainian assault drones dropped lethal explosives on his comrades. Battlefield footage shows the frantic choices he made trying to survive.

The soldier spoke to The Journal at a detention facility in the Kharkiv region on May 19.

0:00 Drone footage
1:43 Establishing communication
3:01 The note
6:14 The surrender