Losses due to friendly fire: The next misadventures will happen to the Russian armed forces not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia itself.
Rostov-on-Don – Not just in Ukraine. Russian losses have been rising and rising ever since Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin decided on a war of aggression that violates international law. And there is no end to the misadventures of Moscow's invading troops in the treacherously attacked neighboring country.
Ukraine War: Russians apparently bomb the occupied city of Rubizhne
Specifically: Like the independent Russian news portal The Moscow Times According to reports, a Russian Air Force fighter bomber had to “emergency unlock” a heavy bomb over the occupied Ukrainian town of Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast. This means that the city was bombed during the Ukraine War, even though Russian troops were probably there.
“While conducting combat operations, a Russian Air Force aircraft emergency released a FAB-250 warhead over the city of Rubizhne,” the quoted MT a Telegram posting by the head of administration of the occupied Luhansk region, Leonid Pasechnik, appointed by the Moscow regime.
Ukraine War: Russian army probably suffered losses even in Russia
Rubizhne, with its former population of 60,000, is located in Ukraine northwest of the large city of Sievierodonetsk (formerly around 100,000 inhabitants), just a few kilometers from the current front line near Kreminna. Pasechnik said no one was killed or injured, but residents had to be temporarily evacuated from the area where the 250-kilogram, 1.92-meter-long bomb fell, the report said.
Meanwhile, there were apparently losses in Russia itself. The air defense allegedly accidentally shot down two of its own paratroopers during an exercise at a military training area in the Rostov region near the border. This is what the news portal reports t online and refers to a post by an unnamed Russian military blogger on Telegram.
Ukraine War: Russian air defense allegedly knocks its own soldiers out of the sky
The gunner of a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun operated by two men is said to have mistakenly mistaken the maneuver for a real attack by the Ukrainians. According to the report, the battery opened fire on the landing soldiers with two 23-millimeter Type 2A14 machine cannons mounted in parallel. Two men were fatally wounded. The Russian military blogger complained that the soldier at the gun had been on duty for 14 hours, which contradicted the regulations. (pm)
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