 for the first time as he and 10 comrades take cover in a rural area. Amid the sound of gunfire, the anti-tank soldier and sniper fires the weapon and shouts 'target destroyed!' before lying low and saying to the camera: 'Sometimes I like this.' He then moves from cover to find the wreckage of the abandoned BTR-70 armoured personnel carrier, an upgrade of a Soviet-era model. Mr Trokhymets told Metro.co.uk: 'I would like to say thankyou to the United Kingdom for providing Ukraine with these weapons. 'It was awesome, one shot, one hit. We had no other anti-tank weapons so I had only this one opportunity to destroy this Russian machine. 'It had been shooting at us from 200 metres with a big calibre machine gun. 'It destroyed a whole building where we were, and we were next. 'So I only had one opportunity before it killed us all. I had never used this weapon before, and it was successful. 'I was calm and concentrated and just did it.' More than 5,000 NLAWs, which have a training time of less than a day, have been sent by the UK to Ukrainian forces. Designed to eliminate tanks at short range with a single shot, the 'fire and forget' weapons are said by analysts to have been a major factor in the defenders' ability to drive back Russian troops. Mr Trokhymets' TikTok video shows the destructive power of the warhead as he moves from cover and crosses a ploughed field to the wreckage of the Z-marked vehicle. He tells the camera: 'It smoked, retreated from our position and remains abandoned.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consid){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A Ukrainian soldier has told how he only had one chance to fire a UK-supplied anti-tank weapon at a Russian vehicle ‘before it killed us all’.
Roman Trokhymets said he only had one chance with the shoulder-mounted missile system as enemy machine gun fire zeroed in on his position in the eastern Donbas region.
The former real estate agent, from Kyiv, is shown in a video using the Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW) for the first time as he and 10 comrades take cover in a rural area.
Amid the sound of gunfire, the anti-tank soldier and sniper fires the weapon and shouts ‘target destroyed!’ before lying low and saying to the camera: ‘Sometimes I like this.’