Russian brick incident

A truck displaying the symbols "Z" in support of the Russian armed forces involved in a military conflict in Ukraine is parked outside PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Igor Russak/File Photo LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russia's Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a former mercenary who was filmed being executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after changing sides in the Ukraine war was a traitor. Prigozhin, a Russian businessman who In the footage, the man, who gave his name as Yevgenny Nuzhin, 55, was shown with his head taped to a brick wall. He said he was abducted in Kyiv on Oct. 11 and came around in a cellar. "I got hit over the head and lost consciousness and came around in this cellar," he said. "They told me I was to be tried." As he said those words, an unidentified man loitering in combat clothing behind Nuzhin, smashed a sledgehammer into the side of his head and neck. Nuzhin collapsed onto the floor and the unidentified man delivered another blow to his head. Reuters was unable to immediately verify the video which appeared on the Grey Zone Telegram channel, one of several that Russian media said was linked to the Wagner group. The video was posted under the title "The hammer of revenge". Asked to comment on th...

HARROWING dashcam footage captured the moment a brick flew off the back of truck and impaled the windscreen of an oncoming car, killing a 29-year-old woman sat in the passenger seat. Wailing and crying can be heard inside the vehicle as the driver and other passengers tragically realise what has happened. 3 The windscreen of the vehicle is impaled by the high-speed brick, leaving the glass completed shattered and a 29-year-old woman dead The car is seen driving along a busy motorway as other vehicles pass by, travelling in the opposite direction. Suddenly a brick appears in midair, after it came loose from a truck, and shatters through the windscreen of the car recording with the dashcam. lucky to be alive Careless driver loses control while overtaking and goes flying over barrier into oncoming traffic The short 20-second clip was uploaded to video sharing website LiveLeak in June 2012 by a user from alternative website BestGore. Although a few years old, the footage has recently picked up traction and now been viewed over more than 34,000 times. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click th...