Watch: Smartphone blocks 7.62 mm bullet, saves Ukrainian soldier's life

A video of a conversation between two Ukrainian soldiers after a 7.2 mm bullet hit a soldier’s smartphone and saved his life has been doing rounds over the internet. 

The video shared over YouTube shows two Ukrainian soldiers talking before one of them pulls out his phone from his pocket, which has a bullet lodged in it.

The clip first appeared on the social media platform Reddit and is 30-second long in duration. A Ukrainian trooper digs his hand in his vest to show a 7.2 mm bullet fired by the Russian side at him.

From the look of it, it feels like the bullet nearly penetrated through the smartphone. But, the lucky soldier escaped death by millimetres. the wound could have proven to be fatal if the bullet had penetrated through the phone.

The video got some shocked, Amusing and Humourous comments.

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One Reddit user said, “If it’d been a Nokia it’d still work,” while another one wrote, “If that was a Nokia, it would have deflected the bullet back to the shooter.”

Another Reddit comment read, “No KIA”; KIA meaning “killed in action”.

In another incident a few months back, a Brazilian policeman was saved from being shot in his buttock due to the cover of his phone. The cop narrowly escaped death after the phone cover blocked a bullet shot at him on October 7 in the city of Petrolina.