Ukrainian fishermen fight Russian drone with an unusual fish weapon

A Russian reconnaissance drone was harassing a boat with Ukrainian fishermen near Kherson. Irritated by this, the men decided to take action. They grabbed a fish they had previously caught and attempted to knock down the spy.

A recording of the incident was published on Telegram channels associated with the Ukrainian military and quickly spread across the internet.

"Sometimes that's how it happens. Kherson fishermen offer a bream to the Russian drone that decided to observe their boat. The fishthrowing was accurate, but the quadcopter managed to stay airborne. The story with the jar of pickles is no longer as incredible," commented the recording editor-in-chief of Censor.Net, Yuriy Butusov.

Butusov recalled a story from the early days of the large-scale war with Russia. In 2022, a Ukrainian woman, Mrs. Olena, knocked down a Russian drone with a jar of tomatoes. For a long time, the story circulated online, with the jar's contents sometimes said to be tomatoes, sometimes pickles. Everything changed when a journalist from the Liga.NET portal reached Mrs. Olena, who worked in a grocery store in Kyiv.

Mrs Olena recounted that on that day, she heard the characteristic buzzing of a drone while sitting on her balcony. She emphasises that she had never seen such a device before and was scared it might start shooting at her. Instinctively, she grabbed something to defend herself with. As fate would have it, it was a litre jar of homemade pickles prepared for winter.

"They were pickled tomatoes with plums—my favourite. A litre jar," explained Mrs. Olena. After knocking down the device, she and her husband trampled its remains and threw them into the rubbish bin.

At the beginning of the war, there was also another notable story. The Ukrainian TV channel reported that in a village near Kherson in the south of the country, Romani people stole a tank from the Russian forces. The channel emphasised that the information came directly from residents.