Goat wounds Russian soldiers after animal wanders into center of combat zone – World News

The Russian soldiers had also planted grenades around a Ukrainian hospital with tripwires in a circle as a means of defense – but a stray goat set off tripwires and injured troops

A goat has wounded several Russian soldiers after detonating a booby trap made of grenades.

The animal triggered tripwires set up by Vladimir Putin’s forces and set off a series of explosions, injuring the invading soldiers.

Kremlin forces were injured after their traps were detonated in Kinski Rozdory, Zaporizhzhia.

The Russian soldiers had also planted grenades around a Ukrainian hospital with tripwires in a circle as a defense.

After they set the trap, an escaped goat wandered towards the hospital and detonated the grenades.

Ukraine said the animal set off a chain reaction and injured several Russian troops.

The fate of the goat that escaped from a nearby farm is unknown.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, called on allies to increase shipments of heavy weapons to take on Russia in the ongoing battle.

“We must liberate our country and achieve victory, but faster, much faster,” he said in a video address.

He added that Moscow’s air and land strikes are aimed at destroying the entire Donbass region.

Invading Russian forces targeted southern and eastern Ukraine after attempting to advance on Kyiv earlier in the conflict, which met with fierce Ukrainian resistance.

The war in Donbass is most critical in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, which bridge the Siverskyi Donets river in Luhansk province.

Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelenskyi, said that the battle there “reaches some sort of frightening climax.”

Civilians by the hundreds are trapped at a chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk as the battle continues to control the city.

Moscow says Ukrainian troops in the city are surrounded and trapped. But Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television on Wednesday that Russian forces are not in full control of Sieverodonetsk.

Gaidai said all of Lysychansk was within range of Russian fire.

“To avoid encirclement, our command could order troops to withdraw to new positions. There might be a regrouping after last night,” he said.

Separatists supported by Russia claimed that Lysychansk had been cut off from supplies, a connecting road to Sieviersk had been taken.

The claims have not yet been confirmed

But the Ministry of Defense in Britain said some Ukrainian units had withdrawn to prevent troops from being encircled.

It said: “Russian forces are putting increasing pressure on the Lysychansk-Sievierodonetsk pocket with this gradual advance – but their efforts to achieve a deeper encirclement to take the western Donetsk region remain stalled.”

Kyiv said the shelling was making life “hell” and insisted ground fighters would hold out “as long as necessary”.

Sergiy Gaiday, governor of the Lugansk region, wrote on Telegram: “The Russian army … just destroys everything. It’s just hell out there.”

“Our boys are holding their positions and will hold them for as long as necessary.”