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rpannier

(24,338 posts)
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 08:30 AM Aug 2022

Don't mess with this 72-year old pensioner

From rferl:
Before Russia's February 24 invasion of Ukraine, pensioner Valentyn Didkovskiy lived a quiet life in the city of Bucha, near Kyiv, sometimes volunteering to bring supplies to Ukrainian troops. But as a Russian armored column rolled past his house on February 27, he picked up a grenade launcher he had been given by his soldier buddies who recovered it from an invading personnel carrier. Didkovskiy, who trained in the Soviet Army in 1979, used the weapon to blow up a fuel truck, sending the invasion into chaos. He captured the destruction in a mobile-phone video showing burned and wrecked vehicles in the streets.

story with vid:
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-bucha-pensioner-rpg-russia-column-ambush-russia/31972521.html

From C&L:
Soon after the Russians invaded, Valentyn Didkovskiy, 72, was given a captured Russian grenade launcher, an RPG-18, as he was very familiar with the weapon. And even though he'd had a stroke in 2021 and told by his doctor to take it easy and live a 'quiet life,' avoiding stress, Didkovskiy was incensed enough when he saw Russian invaders riding through the streets of Bucha to plan his own ambush. Ironically, he'd learned his anti-tank skills over forty years ago in the Soviet army.

Hitting the fuel truck at just the right spot caused a massive explosion and fireball, triggering further explosions one after another down an entire block. His own home, as closest to the explosions was the most heavily damaged in the area. Miraculously, Didkovskiy survived without a scratch, save for singed eyebrows.

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/08/ukrainian-pensioner-takes-out-entire

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Don't mess with this 72-year old pensioner (Original Post) rpannier Aug 2022 OP
I like his plan for Putin IronLionZion Aug 2022 #1
WOW!!!! Karadeniz Aug 2022 #2
Now THAT's a super senior. peppertree Aug 2022 #3
If blowing up an invading armored convoy is his way of taking it easy DFW Aug 2022 #4
Couldn't go fishing, so blew up an invader's fuel truck. sarge43 Aug 2022 #5
Way to protect your home and homeland Valentyn Didkovskiy! iluvtennis Aug 2022 #6
Ukrainians are the descendants of Cossacks. TomSlick Aug 2022 #7

DFW

(54,436 posts)
4. If blowing up an invading armored convoy is his way of taking it easy
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 11:03 AM
Aug 2022

Putin’s army would do well not to piss him off.

TomSlick

(11,109 posts)
7. Ukrainians are the descendants of Cossacks.
Thu Aug 4, 2022, 08:43 PM
Aug 2022

The Ukrainian national anthem has the line (in English): "We’ll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we’ll prove that we brothers are of Cossack kin."

They will fight so long as they have weapons and the physical strength to pull the trigger.

Slava Ukraini!

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