Shocking moment Ukrainian deputy Serhiy Batryn blows up meeting with grenades in ‘act of terrorism’: officials

Most modern grenades send tiny pieces of metal outward about 50 feet but the kill radius is about 15 feet. Various factors can play into survival of a grenade blast like barriers, distance, and grenade quality.

Based on the video the poor quality of the grenades saved lives. Only six people received severe wounds, including the bomber. The grenades were dropped at the feet of those in the room and lower limbs were at risk.

Grenades aren't intended to be kill or breach devices like you see in movies. While they do explode, they do so in such a way as to shred the outer casing making it such that it creates lots of tiny, sharp fragments (hence the name, "fragmentation grenade") which then injure and disable people.

The explosive power of a grenade is rather minimal in the grand scheme of things and unless you are right on top of it or just take an unlucky hit from a piece of shrapnel, you will survive but be injured. The intent, then, is that other people will now have to help you, so injuring one person disables two to three people from the fight.

It's NY Post with a negative story about Ukraine...

Not exactly where you go for unbiased sources, but my guess would be that these grenades were 20-30 years old so the powder was weak. Even when stored properly grenades dont last forever.

Maybe even homemade bombs and not actual grenades.

In a room that small and dropping three in the middle of a lot of people, if they were modern grenades there'd be a lot of fatalities.

If the grenades dropped on the floor when most people were sitting at a table the table may have obstructed shrapnel and prevented it from reaching any organs whose breach would result in immediate death (heart, brain, etc.). It would have to hit a major artery to kill near quickly on the lower body which isn't a huge target.

Instead, it probably hit the legs and possibly some lower body organs, which can still be deadly but less immediate.

It's insane that the guy who dropped them at his own feet survived though. Dude must be half shrapnel at that range.

Maybe Ukrainians are just tough motherfuckers. Russia has been trying to invade them and hasn’t made much progress.

Yeah, that feels like a measured response.

Holy hell has anyone else looked at the comments on the article itself?

NY Post is a right wing rag. So the vast amount of comments are going to be right wingers saying ridiculous things.

people are still crazy in on Obama being the cause of all our problems

That’s how you know that someone is ideologically contaminated and running completely facts-free: they blame everything on someone who has absolutely no relevance to the situation.