Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has shared a video on social media of a drone hunting down a man in southern Ukraine, saying it showed an instance of a Russian "safari" attack against civilians.The video shows the drone pursuing a street vendor on a city street in the Kherson region. The man tries to move away from the drone hovering above him, cowering behind a white van as he is being pursued. Eventually, the drone dunks on him before exploding on impact and injuring him.Sometimes called "human safari", the deployment of remotely-operated drones against civilians has often been used by Russians to terrify residents of front line areas in Ukraine."The world must see this," Zelensky wrote on Telegram. "It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that Russian soldiers are enjoying killings and tormenting people."The video showed a "barbaric war crime", said Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. The safaris were a "deliberate and systemic Russian strategy," Sybiha said. "The sadist operating this drone knows full well that he is targeting a civilian." He added the attack was part of a deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians and ...

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