A husband drowned in front of his wife after plunging into an ice pool on a frozen river in the Ukraine.

The 38-year-old man, named Alexander, asked his wife to film him as he jumped into the freezing Chortomlyk River on February 5.  

However rescuers were soon called to the scene after he failed to return to the surface of the ice pool and was carried away by the fast-flowing current under the frozen river.