26 injuries and no deaths from 3 grenades going off in a enclosed room…
I don’t think I understand grenades
Most modern grenades send tiny pieces of metal outward about 50 feet but the kill radius is about 15 feet. Various factors can play into survival of a grenade blast like barriers, distance, and grenade quality.
Based on the video the poor quality of the grenades saved lives. Only six people received severe wounds, including the bomber. The grenades were dropped at the feet of those in the room and lower limbs were at risk.
Grenades aren’t intended to be kill or breach devices like you see in movies. While they do explode, they do so in such a way as to shred the outer casing making it such that it creates lots of tiny, sharp fragments (hence the name, “fragmentation grenade”) which then injure and disable people.
The explosive power of a grenade is rather minimal in the grand scheme of things and unless you are right on top of it or just take an unlucky hit from a piece of shrapnel, you will survive but be injured. The intent, then, is that other people will now have to help you, so injuring one person disables two to three people from the fight.
If the grenades dropped on the floor when most people were sitting at a table the table may have obstructed shrapnel and prevented it from reaching any organs whose breach would result in immediate death (heart, brain, etc.). It would have to hit a major artery to kill near quickly on the lower body which isn’t a huge target.
Instead, it probably hit the legs and possibly some lower body organs, which can still be deadly but less immediate.
It’s insane that the guy who dropped them at his own feet survived though. Dude must be half shrapnel at that range.
Maybe Ukrainians are just tough motherfuckers. Russia has been trying to invade them and hasn’t made much progress.
From the article, it sounds like this guy disagreed with the local government’s plan to give the village head a 50% raise and rate his performance as satisfactory. Instead, Batryn though everyone in the room should die a horrible death.
Yeah, that feels like a measured response.
Holy hell has anyone else looked at the comments on the article itself?
I’m not even sure what my takeaway is from reading through a couple dozen of those but that this certainly is not a great way to get people who already want Russia to conquer a country into a side of empathy.
~ Also that people are still crazy in on Obama being the cause of all our problems which just sounds so racist
people are still crazy in on Obama being the cause of all our problems
That’s how you know that someone is ideologically contaminated and running completely facts-free: they blame everything on someone who has absolutely no relevance to the situation.
Actually yeah. You can lament what they did in the past but literally not a person you can continue to point at ever since the photo of him enjoying retirement on his jet ski. Obama is checked out and anyone thinking he is doing anything other than watching like the rest of us is delusional.
What an absolute piece of shit. Even if people haven’t died yet from their injuries, and I hope they don’t with perhaps exception to the instigator, the toll this will take on them for the rest of their lives might well if killed some of them anyways.
Now they get to live with both the physical and mental trauma of this because he had an issue on a fucking raise.
3 grenades tossed into a room full of people and no one died on the scene? That’s some luck
