TWISTED Russian civilians have been accused of paying for sick “human safari” hunting missions targeting defenceless Ukrainians on the streets.
Drone pilots working within the Russian army are “wilfully targeting civilians for monetary gain” under Vladimir Putin‘s evil rule, a former Nato analyst told The Jattvibe.
Terrifying footage shows a Russian suicide drone chasing after a Ukrainian civilian in Kherson Credit: Ukrainian Police
The UAV hunted down the civilian before crashing and sparking a huge blast Credit: Instagram
Terrifying footage this week showed Yuriy, a 52-year-old grocer, running for his life as he was chased down by a Kremlin suicide drone.
The Ukrainian was left with serious shrapnel wounds as the UAV exploded as it struck the grocer’s tent where he was selling fruit and vegetables.
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Harrowing footage was released just a few days later and captured another drone attack on a Ukrainian civilian in Sumy.
A Russian drone pursues a local appearing to toy with him before the operator makes the drone explode in a huge blast.
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Another brutal Russian ‘human safari’ showed a fleeing Ukrainian being hunted before a huge explosion in Sumy Credit: Facebook
The drone pilot appears to toy with the man, chasing him, before it explodes Credit: Facebook
The horror scenes make up just a couple of the thousands of senseless attacks on civilians by Russia during the war in Ukraine with Kherson becoming known as the grim epicentre of the attacks.
Dr Patrick Bury, a warfare and counter-terrorism expert and former Nato analyst, says the brutality highlights how Putin has created a regime which is “completely rotten to the core”.
He told The Jattvibe: “[Russia is] going in and they’re basically intentionally targeting civilians.
“It’s become known as the Kherson safari, essentially civilian hunting missions.
“It shows we’re at the real bottom of the barrel of human conduct in war.”
Dr Bury says the human safaris would be considered one of the worst atrocities committed by Moscow should they ever face consequences.
The term human safari is most well known due to the 1990s siege of Sarajevo.
Wealthy tourists were accused of making weekend trips to the besieged city and paying Serbian fighters to shoot civilians in the streets.
Yuriy, a 52-year-old grocer, was chased down by the Russian suicide drone Credit: Telegram/ Oleksandr Prokudin
Dr Patrick Bury says the brutality highlights how Putin has created a regime which is ‘completely rotten to the core’ Credit: Alamy
Dr Bury fears a similar pattern of abuse could be repeated in Ukraine after several worrying reports from independent journalists in Kyiv.
He claims: “It looks like a fusion between military units like the eighth Artillery Regiment and certain people in there who are drone operators.
“They have been accused of using crowdfunding from Russian civilians to gain money.
“They’re wilfully targeting civilians for monetary gain and propaganda gain.
“The fact that there’s been no one brought to task speaks volumes about the Russian military – the laws of war are clearly not a priority for them.”
In Kherson alone, Human Rights Watch (HRW) found at least 45 drone strikes carried out by Russian forces that appeared to deliberately target civilians.
Dozens of these cases were filmed and shared across Russian social media and Telegram channels.
In almost every example seen, HRW claims they believe the drone operator was purposely targeting a civilian or civilian infrastructure like a bus or parking lot.
A Russian FPV drone burns in a wheat field in the Kharkiv region after crashing Credit: AP
A Russian FPV drone hits a car in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region Credit: AP
Intentionally killing civilians during an armed conflict is a serious war crime, under international humanitarian law, such as the Geneva Conventions.
A United Nations probe during the conflict has found Russia guilty of committing crimes against humanity in the occupied regions of Ukraine.
The UN report states that large numbers of Ukrainian civilians have been targeted in a “widespread and systematic manner” at the hands of Russia.
Ukraine’s former deputy minister at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko also condemned the human hunts.
He blasted: “Russian human safari is spreading. Russia‘s war crimes are mounting up.”
Back in April, three separate strikes on public spaces in the Nikopol district killed 10 and injured over 50 civilians within three days.
Russian FPVs hit two passenger buses, killing four civilians while a second in the nearby Chervonohryhorivka municipality wounded five.
A drone also struck a civilian car, killing one and injuring another as a day earlier five were killed when a Kremlin drone struck a civilian market in Nikopol.
Much like this year, the number of civilian attacks often surges in summer, Dr Bury says.
“Between summer 2025 and by October 2025, it was up to about 200 confirmed dead and over 2,000 wounded in these kinds of attacks.
“And they’re targeting everyone, they’re targeting shops, people going out for a cigarette, children in playgrounds even people on their way home from work.”
One of the scariest parts of these attacks is how defenceless the civilians are when the deadly UAVs lock onto their positions.
The drones can be operated by a soldier who watches a camera which allows them to track a target even if they try to run or hide.
“It’s not as if civilians in these areas are equipped with electromagnetic jammers so you can hear them and take cover and that is about it,” Dr Bury added.
For experts such as Patrick, the fact Russians allegedly partake in such heinous activities comes down to the example set by their despotic leader.
Dr Bury said: “There’s a lot of great things that have come out of Russia but ultimately it is quite a brutalised place, especially since the Soviets.
“And certainly in this war, you get to the front line and you’re put into a meat storm where you’re given a gun and then just told to charge the enemy to be quickly wiped down in a human wave attack.
“I think all this plays into a kind of normalisation of this kind of brutal behaviour.”
