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Thì ra đoạn phim một chiếc xe tăng của Nga bị một tiểu đội lính Ukraine bắn lan truyền trên mạng 3 hôm trước là tiểu đội của Ben Grant. Con trai của nghị sĩ Anh. Xem đoạn phim đó rất gây cấn.

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‘We’ve got to move or we’ll die’: Tory MP’s son on the front line in Ukraine

Former Royal Marine helps save fellow Briton during battle after their unit was ambushed by Russian forces

A Conservative MP’s son fighting with Ukrainian soldiers helped save a fellow Briton who was injured by a landmine during an intense firefight filmed on a helmet-mounted camera.

Ben Grant can be heard screaming: “We’ve got to move now or we’re gonna die!” as he and comrades dragged former Grenadier Guardsman Dean Arthur to safety in woodland north of Kharkiv.
In the dramatic footage, obtained by The Telegraph, Mr Grant and his unit treat Mr Arthur’s leg with a tourniquet and dressing before telling him: “You’ve got to try and walk or we’re going to die, mate.”
Under constant fire from Russian forces nearby, the soldiers shout encouragement to Mr Arthur, telling him: “Come on Deano! Last bit, keep going! Good man – you moved fast and well there, brother.”
The 40-minute footage of the incident, which happened earlier this month, provides a soldier’s-eye view of the brutality of front line fighting in Ukraine.


Dean Arthur’s comrades tend to his injury

Mr Arthur, who appears to be barely conscious as comrades support him on either side, lost part of his lower left calf when he knelt on a mine. He is in hospital in Kyiv, where doctors have saved his leg.
The two Britons were with a team of around 15 foreign volunteers who have been supporting Ukrainian forces battling Russian invaders. Mr Grant, a veteran of Afghanistan, said the fighting was worse than any he had previously experienced.
They were part of the Ukrainian counter-offensive that pushed Moscow’s troops out of Kharkiv and, in places, all the way back to the Russian border.
In a separate video filmed several days later, Mr Grant and his team took out a Russian transporter vehicle using a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. “Shoot it now” and “mind the back blast”, he says before the missile is fired.


Ben Grant and his team took out a Russian transporter vehicle using a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher


Ben Grant, pictured after arriving in Ukraine at Lviv CREDIT: Morten Risberg

On Friday, Boris Johnson called for longer range artillery to be delivered to Ukraine, warning that Moscow is making “palpable” progress in the key battle for the Donbas.
Mr Grant, a 30-year-old former Royal Marine, is the son of Helen Grant, the Tory MP for Maidstone and The Weald. He left for Ukraine in March and said at the time: “I didn’t even tell my Mum.”
He told The Telegraph that his 15-strong unit, made up of British and American volunteers and two Ukrainian translators, had been preparing for an assault on a Russian-held target near Kharkiv when they were ambushed.
He said: “I think we must have been spotted by drones beforehand and they had set up their lines… so as we went in the mass firefight broke out where you see [in the video] what we saw.
“We were walking in single file as the contact happened, Deano was at the end of my team, when he went to take a knee… we were shooting, getting our heads down and shooting them. I was terrified but driven to complete my most important goal, which at the time was getting him and my team out of the danger.
“What was so scary was being so limited by trying to carry someone, when I can’t pull my weapon up, while there are attack helicopters overhead and tanks firing through the woods. It was unreal – I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life.”


Ben Grant reloads his rifle before a fresh firefight as a volley of shots are fired overhead and through the woodland

He said the mine – thought to have been remote-controlled – went off near Mr Arthur, “which has blown half of his leg off”, adding: “Trying to do this [first aid] mid-firefight while there are Russians shooting over us and around us is just so difficult.”
Another soldier, Edwin Saez, 22, applies a tourniquet to the top of the wounded man’s leg as Mr Grant’s unit returns fire through trees that helped provide cover from the Russians.
Several times the team have to take cover and Mr Arthur cries out in pain but Mr Grant motivates him, saying: “Come on Deano, come on, we’re going to get shot, come on.”
Despite bullets passing over their heads, the team lie down in undergrowth to assess Mr Arthur’s injury, cutting through his uniform to reveal a gaping wound.
Mr Grant tells Mr Arthur: “You OK bro? It’s alright. Deano… well done, well done…we’ve gotta go, come on, I can’t leave you. Grab his helmet – someone help! Helmet! Helmet! You’ve got to try and walk or we’re going to die, mate.”


Mr Arthur, 42, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, said: “All I remember is we got contacted, we advanced at the contact. Let out an RPG [rocket propelled grenade] at the positions. A few seconds later I was on the ground.

“One of the guys came to me straight away, put a tourniquet on. It was excruciating pain, with rounds incoming. Mortars, artillery, all that was coming in. I remember the guys grabbing me, saying: ‘Let’s go, let’s go’. We met a medic, he patched me up. Shot of morphine.

“You’ve seen the footage, you can hear rounds coming. I don’t remember much, it’s in and out. I remember being put on a stretcher the last kilometre. They got me out, man, they got me out.
“This type of stuff, this type of camaraderie is only forged in these situations. If the coin was flipped, it was one of those guys, I would have got them out.  I was a real lucky boy at the end of the day.  So many guys didn’t come back that day.”


Dean Arthur described himself as lucky to get out of the situation

He added: “It’s an honour to be able to do this. They’re such great people. I thought Russia would steamroll Ukraine, so that’s why when the offer was put out that’s why I came straight away.”
Praising the courage of the Ukrainian forces, he said: “That’s the one thing that shocked me. The stuff these guys are doing is real war fighting. These guys are going in as the underdogs, and they’re winning. They do this every day, relentlessly. Not just the guys on the front line, it’s the volunteers, the hospitals, everyone.”
He said his wounds were “healing great” and he was “upset” that he was no longer with his unit, adding: “They’re my family. I have a mission. I’m gonna get myself well and right. I’ll be back and help them in any capacity I can.”

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