Mutinous Russian troops ran over their own commander, say western officials

[Luizy]

Source: The Guardian

Western officials have said they believe a Russian commander was run over by mutinous forces during the fighting in Ukraine, in a sign of what they described as the “morale challenges” faced by the invading forces.

They highlighted – and repeated – reports from earlier this week from a Ukrainian journalist that a colonel of the 37th separate guards motor rifle brigade was run over by a tank. Some reports said he had died of his injuries.

One official said they believed that the brigade commander was “killed by his own troops” as “a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade” in the bitter fighting.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/russian-troops-mutiny-commander-ukraine-report-western-officials

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I read elsewhere that he died.
Not sure how you survive being run over by a tank.

[Turbineguy]

1. The

Niedermeyer treatment.

[L. Coyote]

2. Lieutenant General Yakov Ryazantsev liquidated in Chernobaevka.

Another general bites the dust. A lot of good all those medals do!

Link to tweet

[Cha]

5. Rt TY We know Putin is spitting

[L. Coyote]

6. I know, how could he possibly pose

without the funny hat?

Putin doesn't care that he was killed.

[Cha]

8. Not about the person but that

it makes his Invading Army look Deadly Incompetent.

[Flaleftist]

3. Is that number 6?

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Fifteenth top commander according to this article...

Putin loses his 15TH top commander as Ukraine continues to take out elite troops: Colonel is latest to die as Russia suffers worst loss of military leaders since World War Two

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10642413/Putins-15th-commander-killed-Ukrainian-forces-say-worst-deaths-brass-WWII.html

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[niyad]

11. Sixth general, one admiral.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Fragged using a tank.

[Warpy]

7. Not outside the realm of possibiliy that they were joking

You know, "What happened to Col. Blimpsky?" "He was in the way, we ran over him with our tank."

It's certainly plausible given a dark sense of humor.

He's been listed as injured in more places than not, maybe he stuck a big foot under a tank tread to get out of the war, although that seems a bit extreme. Maybe he was just clumsy.

Chances are we'll never know.

I remember reports of fragging in Vietnam, they always happened in another unit, buddy told me, heard it in a bar, apocryphal. No one I know has ever owned up to being a distant witness, let alone a perp, not even 50 years down the road.

Chances are we'll never know that, either.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. He was definitely run over.

I read an article somewhere that features a photo of him being carried away on a stretcher and his coloring wasn't good. It described his injuries as being "crush injuries to both legs" so it's of note that his lower body was covered by a blanket in the photo of him on the stretcher.

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. Yeah,

I heard about a couple of reports of fragging in while I was in country, but never first hand, so who knows?

[BadGimp]

12. damn!