The media found a woman from Kyiv who shot down an enemy drone with a jar of tomatoes.

For several days in a row, people have circulated a message on social media that a woman shot down an enemy drone with a jar of pickles. Most people considered it a military fable, but it turned out to be a real story.

Ms Olena agreed to talk to a journalist from LIGA. She asked not to mention her name and show her photos because she is afraid now.

The woman said it happened at dawn. She was sitting on the balcony smoking. "I saw something floating slowly. At first, I thought someone had hit the crow. Then I heard a buzzing sound," she said.

She admitted that she had never seen a drone up close before. However, hearing the sound, she realized: it was definitely not a bird in front of her.

She could have found something more suitable in the apartment to knock down an enemy device. However, at that moment, she thought that if she had run into the room and returned, she would have lost time - the drone might have disappeared. Instead, there were jars with pickles under her chair.

So Olena grabbed a jar and threw at the drone with all her might: "I did it probably out of fear because I was scared. What if they started firing at me from there! I feel horrible about those tomatoes. I don't know where the stories about cucumbers came from."

"These were tomatoes with plums, my favourite ones. A litre jar" said Elena.

Then she and her husband walked around the house, trampled on the remains of the drone and scattered debris in various garbage cans: "Because I do not understand this electronics. Maybe it records something, tracks somebody."

Photos of a broken jar with pickled cucumbers are also spreading on the Internet as if to confirm the legend. Olena calls the pictures fake as she didn't take photos of her broken jar with tomatoes: "It's not the time to take photos."

Olena's family lives in the Dniprovskyy district of Kyiv. There are 21 years of civil service behind the woman's shoulders; she is a journalist by profession: "But this profession is not mine. I ended up going into trade, working for an entrepreneur for 12 years."

Now the woman works in a small shop of household chemicals in her district. A young couple who have now left the city owns the store.