At least 40 Russian soldiers have been injured after a Ukrainian goat set off a boobytrap they were laying around a hospital in Zaporizhzhia with its “chaotic movements”.
The troops were setting up a tripwire when an escaped goat from a farm in the village of Kinski Rozdory triggered it.
They had pinned grenades around the edge of a local hospital and placed the trap as a “circular defence”, Ukraine’s Chief Intelligence Directorate said.
But shortly after the trap was laid, the goat wandered towards the area, creating a chain reaction that injured dozens of troops.
“As a result of the goat’s ‘chaotic’ movements, the animal ‘disposed of’ several grenades,” the Defense Intelligence wrote.
Read more: The Telegraph