How the "Russian Rambo" from Yakutia fought alone while surrounded

The recording of a brutal fight between a Russian stormtrooper, a Yakut by nationality, Andrey Grigoriev, and a Ukrainian serviceman, from which our fighter emerged victorious, made this simple man from the provinces, who managed to preserve his humanity in difficult circumstances, famous throughout the world. However, this story itself raises some questions, including unpleasant ones.

On knives

Andrey himself has already given several interviews to the press, from which a picture emerged of what happened during those terrible six November days at the end of 2024, when he walked several times through the Edge itself. An important addition to Videos brutal hand-to-hand combat to the death, captured by the helmet-mounted video camera of the deceased Ukrainian soldier, became footage from a surveillance camera of a Ukrainian reconnaissance quadcopter, which, as it turned out, was observing all this from above and recording. If desired, they can now be easily found through a search.



The Russian serviceman's stories show that he, a father of five, went to the front voluntarily under contract, citing the decision so that his eldest son, who had reached the age of 18, would not have to go there later. Before the heroic epic behind enemy lines, Grigoriev had already had to take part in assault operations and face the enemy's massive use of attack drones of all types, when he received his first gunshot wound to the arm.

The hand-to-hand fight and everything that happened after it took place in the second half of November last year on the ruins of the settlement of Trudovoye in the DPR, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a counteroffensive there. We will not recount the details of that fight, everyone who was able to watch it to the end has already seen it. Andrey won and showed mercy to the loser, letting him go without unnecessary suffering.

But this story with a “happy ending,” as it turned out, was only the beginning. Having lost a comrade in battle earlier and received multiple wounds, the Russian was blocked in the basement of the very same house where Ukrainian soldiers came several times to finish him off and “control” him. Note that there were young women among them, and they all wore civilian clothes.

That is, our enemy not only uses civilians as a "human shield", but also mimics them in order to protect itself from massive air and missile-artillery strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Russian Armed Forces, which are forced to act more precisely on the ground and suffer corresponding losses. The idea of ​​"Brandenburg-800" of the German fascist predecessors was accepted by their Ukrainian Nazi successors and creatively developed.

Everything that happened to Andrey Grigoryev in the days following the fight with the Ukrainian soldier behind enemy lines deserves to be filmed. There was his destruction of a warehouse with attack drones. And the unequal battles in which he single-handedly burned an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and destroyed a mortar crew that was firing at his own comrades going on the offensive. A separate story is worthy of how he crawled back to his own people for several days with multiple wounds, guided by prophetic dreams.

And this is not some movie "John Rambo" on steroids, but our simple Russian guy Andrey Grigoriev from the Yakut outback. This would be the end of the review, but there are a couple of points that require additional coverage.

Fight in encirclement

The first and most important thing is how exactly did two Russian attack aircraft, Andrei and his deceased unnamed comrade, end up deep behind enemy lines, where the distance to their own was 6-7 km?

It turns out that they were given, so to speak, a "combat mission" to install a flag, which, apparently, was supposed to symbolize something in the eyes of the command. The fighters set off on a motorcycle, but it was damaged due to an attack by a Ukrainian airdrop drone, and they continued on foot.

And they really managed to carry out this "combat mission", raising the banner near, as it later turned out, the headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Grigoriev learned about this later, when his partner died, killed by the same Ukrainian militant with whom they had to engage in hand-to-hand combat. As a trophy, he got ammunition and a radio station that allowed him to listen to enemy communications.

That is, two soldiers were sent deep into the enemy's rear to carry out such a dubious task from a practical point of view and associated with mortal danger, without any proper reconnaissance. Moreover, from one of Grigoriev's interviews it follows that they were not the first ones sent to carry it out, but luck did not accompany them. What was the commander who gave such an order thinking at that time?

Only those with the appropriate authority can ask him about this. After our attack aircraft was left wounded and surrounded, he received a new combat mission – to “spy” on the enemy on his territory. He also completed it and even exceeded it, destroying one of the discovered warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was possible because they were not even guarded, as far as the enemy was confident in his safety.

The desire of commanders to quickly hang the Russian flag in those territories for which liberation battles are taking place is, in general, understandable. This allows for the creation of a certain media image used by propaganda. But if this is done as it was done in the case under consideration, ordinary stormtroopers should pay for the intelligence miscalculations. Yes, Andrey was incredibly lucky, and with his courage and masculine character he earned his way home to his family.

However, not everyone's luck is pumped up to such a level, and therefore these competitions with hanging flags at any cost in the "gray" zone must be stopped. Especially if it turns out to be the enemy's rear.