ALBAWABA - Today, this story is becoming the talk of town; everyone is writing about it - including major newspapers across the world because of the light humor it contains despite the deadly setting.
On social media it had been trending as the woman - young mom - who brought down the Russian drone down from her Kiev apartment in a tall building. Wow!
امرأة أوكرانية تُسقط طائرة من دون طيار روسية «بعلبة طماطم» https://t.co/ltQfEKsnVS
— صحيفة الشرق الأوسط (@aawsat_News) March 9, 2022
The story as told over and over again has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Olena, who was sitting in her balcony at the time, and in the early hours of the morning with a cigarette in her hand and probably a cup of coffee, suddenly saw something moving directly opposite in front of her.
It was elevated. She then realized it was a drone, probably a Russian, although not sure. She thought the drone was about to start firing at her in a machine-gun-like manner, the ones you seen in action movie thrillers.
https://t.co/yRM5P88bGr found the woman who knocked down a Russian drone with a jar of pickled tomatoes. She wants to set the record straight: those were NOT picked cucumbers. The gist of her story is in this thread 1/https://t.co/13txRgttLt
— Katya Gorchinskaya (@kgorchinskaya) March 7, 2022
Quick! What was required was rapid mental thinking. All sorts of things were going in and out of her mind especially since these days Kiev is subject to numerous out-of-the-blue blasting sirens that are eerie to say the least.
"What can I do". Behind her feet were lots of pickled jars. Without thinking she picked one and quickly hurled it at the drone. "I threw as hard as I can". Good shot, well done, a hit right on center, bullseye. The drone was seen crashing down on the ground. There was nothing there, no activity, not even a bleep.
It was dusk, the sun had not yet risen. Olena was sitting on the balcony of her Kyiv apartment and smoking: "I saw something floating slowly. At first I thought that a crow was injured. And then I heard a buzz." She had never seen a drone up close before 2/
— Katya Gorchinskaya (@kgorchinskaya) March 7, 2022
Although there was lots of theories about the Russians are coming one tweet solved the mystery: "According to Olena, the drone was launched by looters who are looking for apartments without owners: "They have already gone to our entrance. A neighbor noticed suspicious young men, & when she began to ask loudly who they were & where they came from, they quickly fled."
"According to Olena, the drone was launched by looters who are looking for apartments without owners: "They have already gone to our entrance. A neighbor noticed suspicious young men, & when she began to ask loudly who they were & where they came from, they quickly fled."
— Stand for something (@newdaynewlife11) March 8, 2022
So this is the story of the housewife with two kids, a husband and someone who worked in a store in downtown Kiev!
