This is the moment a shirtless man ignores the risk to himself as he climbs into a river to save a drowning dog.

The life-saving scene took place in the city of Astrkhan in the Astrakhan Oblast of south-western Russia where a man did not hesitate to get into the icy water of one of the cities rivers to save a dog.

Reportedly the man was a passerby who had simply spotted the dog that was struggling after falling through broken ice and was scrambling to climb free.

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