The son of a Conservative MP fighting with Ukrainian soldiers helped save a British compatriot who was wounded by a landmine during an intense shootout filmed with a camera mounted on a helmet.
Ben Grant can be heard shouting, “We have to move now or we’ll die!” while he and his comrades were dragging the old grenadier guard Dean Arthur to a safe place in the forest north of Kharkiv.
In the dramatic footage, obtained by The Telegraph, Mr. Grant and his unit treat Mr. Arthur’s leg with a tourniquet and a suit before telling him, “You have to try to walk or we’ll die, mate.”
Under the constant fire of the nearby Russian forces, the soldiers shouted encouragement to Mr. Arthur, saying, “Come on Dean! Last moment, keep it up! Good man, you moved fast and well there, brother.
The 40-minute footage of the incident, which took place earlier this month, offers a military view of the brutality of front-line fighting in Ukraine.
Mr. Arthur, who seems to be barely conscious while his teammates support him on either side, lost part of his lower left calf when he knelt in a mine. He is in the hospital in Kyiv, where doctors have saved his leg.
The two British men were with a team of about 15 foreign volunteers who have been supporting Ukrainian forces fighting Russian invaders. Grant, a veteran of Afghanistan, said the fighting was worse than it had been before.
They were part of the Ukrainian counter-offensive that pushed Moscow’s troops out of Kharkiv and, in some places, to the Russian border.
In a separate video shot several days later, Mr. Grant and his team pulled out a Russian transport vehicle with a rocket launcher mounted on its shoulder. “Shoot him now” and “watch out for the back blast,” he says before firing the missile.