Serhiy was taken away for questioning and returned, only to be transferred to another prison. Masked men took him from the cell. “He said goodbye to me, and that was it,” the marine said.

Serhiy then spent 16 agonizing hours waiting in the courtyard of the building, hoping that his wife and baby were alive. When rescue workers finally found them, both were dead.

From his pocket, Serhiy Melnyk pulls out a small rusty shard, wrapped neatly in paper. He holds it up. "It grazed my kidney, pierced my lung, and my heart," says the Ukrainian serviceman quietly.

Serhiy can be seen in the footage throwing a thumbs up in the moment he realized that he could be saved. According to CNN, the drone kept sending water and medicine to the wounded soldier to ease ...

Serhiy said that another Bradley had gone before them, but "it didn't work out, so we had to muster up the courage and go." He did not elaborate on what had happened with the first crew.