Russian Military Commander Hospitalised After Being Run Over With A Tank By Angry Soldier
Colonel Yury Medvedev is currently said to be in a hospital in neighbouring Belarus, after suffering injuries on both his legs. He was reportedly run over with a tank by a soldier who ¡°blamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,¡± Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk said on Facebook.
It has been a month since Russia launched its war in Ukraine and by all estimates it has not gone according to Moscow's plan.
The massive Russian military column that dwarfed Ukrainian troops, however, ran into a brick wall in the country that they had set out to conquer.
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A combination of several factors including the resistance by Ukraine military and civilians, poor training, logistic challenges and weather meant that the Russian invasion has been one of major setbacks.
What happened?
In yet another sign of things are not well among the men who were sent to fight Putin's war a Russian soldier allegedly ran his tank over his commander.
Colonel Yury Medvedev is currently said to be in a hospital in neighbouring Belarus, after suffering injuries on both his legs.
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He was reportedly run over with a tank by a soldier who ¡°blamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,¡± Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk said on Facebook.
¡°Having waited for the right moment, during battle, he ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs,¡± he wrote.
¡°Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus, waiting for monetary compensation for combat wounds received during the ¡®special military operation to protect the Donbass.¡¯ Colonel Medvedev was awarded the Order of Courage,¡± he wrote further.
Claims unverified though
While the claim of him being ran over with a tank is not verified, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov had confirmed in a VK post Medvedev was injured during a fight.
He had also posted a video of an injured Medvedev being evacuated on March 11.
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In a related incident, the conversation between two Russian soldiers was intercepted, in which they were heard describing the losses and difficulties they face in Ukraine.
¡°Basically, it¡¯s a s**t show here, I¡¯ll put it that way,¡± a soldier near Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, was heard telling his comrade in a recording released by Ukraine¡¯s Security Service.
The soldier described how Ukrainian troops ¡°tore apart¡± a column of Russian forces and says 50 per cent of his unit suffered from frostbite to the feet.
¡°But they don¡¯t plan to treat them in the [field] hospital,¡± he said as per the translation of the intercept released by Ukrainian authorities.
Intercepted call between #Russian soldiers in #Ukraine: "It¡¯s a sh*tshow ¡ They couldn¡¯t even send off the 200s here. They rode with us for 5 days.
¡ª Julie Laumann ? (@Otpor17) March 24, 2022
Even in Chechnya, there was nothing like this, this is a madhouse."https://t.co/fOOWNEuihr pic.twitter.com/CTn2pltVVZ
The service member also said their commander, Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezantsev, told them on the fourth day of their deployment that the war would be over quickly.
¡°Do you know what he told us? ¡®It¡¯s no secret to anyone that there are only a few hours until this special operation is over.¡¯ And now those hours are still going,¡± the soldier said.
Earlier this week, NATO had estimated that 7000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of the war in Ukraine.
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