Battle doctors got out of the arms of the Armed Forces Element of Grand Grah-17 (photo)

According to doctors, the element of the grenade of the invaders kissed the serviceman in his hand. "What you see in the photo is a battle element of the GPO-17 grenade, which he kissed directly into the hand of the Ukrainian defender. Fortunately, our military doctors got him out of the wounded hand, saving him not only life but also an ending,"-said in message. Doctors specify that the patient is feeling well after surgery and prepared for further treatment and rehabilitation.

POPD-17-30mm fragmentation grenade, designed for automatic grenade launcher AGS-17, AGS-30. The grenade housing is thin -walled, chemically darkened, there is a spiral from the carved wire of a rectangular cross -section, a shrapnel shirt with semi -finished fragments. The POP-17 was developed at the Design Bureau "Dev device" in the late 1960s for shooting with a grenade launcher AGS-17.

The POP-17 with an instant action detonator is one of the first, now outdated, modifications of shrapnel grenades. In 1971, the FRI-17A shot was modified by a detonator with the self-liquidation device (called POG-17m). Russian invaders used the corresponding grenades widely during the war in eastern Ukraine. In particular, POP-17 were adapted for dropping from unmanned aerial vehicles.

Thus, in March 2020, near the settlement of Hnutovo, Donetsk region, the Russian military was dropped by GP-17 from the UAV to the sanitary car of the 10th mountain-assault brigade of the Armed Forces, which is a gross violation of international agreements on the protection of doctors on the forefront. In addition, in August 2020, during the next declared truce, militants of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation dropped from the UAV on the positions of defenders several rods.

Another case of the use of the GP-17 was recorded on March 13, 2021 in the area of ​​responsibility of the operative-tactical group "East", not far from the settlement of Vodyane, which is in the Azov region. In the same direction, using the unmanned aircraft, the Russians dropped two shots of POP-17 over the positions of the Joint Forces. Also, the invaders from the UAV was used by the invaders and on November 6, 2021 in the area of ​​the settlement of the Bolotne Luhansk region.