Yakutsk military officer who defeated an AFU fighter said he initially understood the outcome of the battle

Andrei Grigoryev, a Yakutian soldier of the Russian Armed Forces (AF) who defeated a Ukrainian fighter with the call sign Tuta, told the all-Russian public movement Narodny Front on January 4 that they both understood that only one of them would come out of the fight alive.

"It was clear to me and it was clear to him that only one would come out of this fight. So it was either him or me. We fought to the last man there," he said.

Grigoriev said the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) soldier was much taller and larger than him. Tuta thanked his instructors for good combat training.

The Yakutian military officer reported that he feels good at the moment. However, the enemy wounded him with a knife in his right ear, due to which it cannot hear.

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The fact that the Yakut fighter Grigoryev defeated the AFU fighter in hand-to-hand combat was reported in the press service of the ONF earlier in the day. The fight took place after a Ukrainian drone attack. Tuta, along with a fellow soldier, was supposed to plant a Russian flag in Trudovoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). The Ukrainian militant tried to induce the fighter to surrender as a prisoner, but Grigoryev got into a fight with him and used a knife. The Russian Armed Forces soldier managed to overpower the enemy, who after the fight asked to be allowed to "leave quietly".