The latest story of homespun Ukrainian heroism circulating on Twitter suggests that a woman downed a Russian drone by throwing a jar of pickled gherkins from her balcony at the device.
The report has come from Liubov Tsybulska, an advisor to the Ukrainian government, who tweeted about the incident to her 7,600-plus followers.
She posted: “In Kyiv a woman knocked down a Russian drone from a balcony with a jar of cucumbers. How did they expect to occupy this country?”
Within hours the tweet went viral .
Source: Twitter
[no way of verifying this so far but it caught our attention – Ed.]