RT: Gagra fighter from Pyatnashka survived explosion thanks to helmet with cross

According to the soldier, the shell "hit his head, right in his helmet."

"Five or six people – we are all lying on the floor. And then, already in the hospital, I find out that the helmet belonged to a priest and there was a cross under the helmet," the serviceman reported the details.

"Gagra" noted that the "Pyatnashka" battalion is "one big family." Now this unit plays one of the key roles in protecting the Kursk region from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Earlier, another Russian Armed Forces soldier said that his comrade-in-arms avoided serious injury in the SVO zone thanks to a pectoral cross. A fragment of ammunition hit the cross hanging on his neck. "It penetrated it and only superficially wounded the soldier," the soldier said.