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A brave pensioner managed to fight off a mugger who tried to snatch her handbag as she walked along a deserted street in Russia.
CCTV footage shows the woman, believed to be 70 years old, fending off the man in Ostozhenka, central Moscow.
The clip begins with the woman walking along an empty pavement when a man runs up behind her and grabs her bag, before attempting to make a run for it.
But the determined pensioner refuses to let go and staggers after the street robber, who tries to shake the bag out of her vice-like grip.
CCTV footage (above) showed the moment that the woman, believed to be 70 years old, managed to fend off a 22-year-old man who tried to steal her handbag in Ostozhenka, Moscow
The woman loses her footing amid the grapple and is dragged along the road on her back for several metres by the man - but still she refuses to give up her prized possession.
A brief struggle ensues, with the elderly woman unable to get up from the road, but she appears to push the man off her
