There’s a report out of Ukraine that – if true – shows just what difficulty the Russians are in with their war in Ukraine and just how unhappy some of their troops may be about how things are going.
According to Ukrainian and Western sources, a Russian commander of the 37th motor rifle brigade – Col. Yuri Medvedev – was run over by his troops in Ukraine.
Daily Mail
The official said of Colonel Medvedev: ‘He was killed by his own troops we believe as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade,’ they added. ‘That gives an insight into some of the morale challenges the Russian forces are having.’
According to the official, the tank appeared to have taken out the colonel. ‘We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately,’ they said.
Roman Tsimbalyuk (Ukrainian journalist) claims that Medvedev was the Russian soldier who drove the tank. Tsimbalyuk claimed that half the force of the unit was lost to injuries or deaths. “Having waited for the right moment, during battle, he [the Russian soldier] ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs,” Tsimbalyuk explained. The injured officer was taken to the hospital in Belarus, he said.
While the Russians didn’t confirm the incident, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (who is helping Putin in the war) released video allegedly showing a wounded Medvedev being taken to a hospital.
Warning: tweet contains coarse language.
Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk: A Russian soldier ran over his commanding officer, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, with his tank “to protest the huge number of losses they have suffered”. Putin’s in deep sh*t if his soldiers are turning on their commanders. pic.twitter.com/noGHVx0rPz
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 23, 2022
On Friday, he died.
Now, we do note that it’s a report, which hasn’t been confirmed.
Russians have sustained huge losses on the battlefield. My colleague Streiff earlier reported that the Russians had released a Friday count of 5,201 deaths, but this number seems likely to be false. NATO calculated this week that between 7,000- 15,000 were the most likely numbers.
On Tuesday, I reported how a Russian party paper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, published a casualty account citing the Russian Ministry of Defense; they put the number at close to 9,861 — before they retracted it, saying they were “hacked.”
Russia had many of its higher-ranking military officers removed, my friend Andrew Malcolm reported. detailed. Now, there’s yet another one – Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezantsev.
Russian two-stars general Yakov Rezantsev was apparently killed by a Ukrainian strike at the Chirobayevka Airfield in Kherson. This is the HQ for Russian 49th army. Resantsev was the commander of the 49th army. If this is true, it would be the 6th RU general as well as the 2nd two stars RU general KIA of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/WTFgISUEZP
— Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny) March 25, 2022
This is most likely Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, who was reportedly killed in the vicinity of Kherson airport. Rezantsev is a DVOKU graduate and is the commander of the Southern Military District’s 49th Combined Army Army.https://t.co/Fyfarc6Lw5https://t.co/MwttB050Sf https://t.co/QzO5B1K1l7 pic.twitter.com/8Z01bPSUF2
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) March 25, 2022
Resantsev died at Chornobayevka, (a tweet misspelled it wrongly) near Kherson. He’s the second, two-star General killed in Ukraine.
Reports also claim that 20 out of 120 battalions Putin assembled for this war are no longer operational. That’s an incredible response from Ukraine, and just buttresses why the Russian troops have to be feeling so demoralized.
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