Russia fired by itself troops after they surrendered throughout a failed assault within the Donbas Area, Kyiv has mentioned.
The thirty third Separate Mechanized Brigade, a part of the Ukrainian Floor Forces, mentioned on Saturday night time that seven Russian fighters had been attempting to offer themselves up into Ukrainian captivity after they had been fired on by their very own military.
Their unit had been attempting to hold out an operation close to the village of Kostiantynivka however suffered severe losses when Kyiv used First-Particular person View (FPV) drones, the Ukrainian Navy Middle mentioned in an replace on Sunday.
The group reportedly got here out of a forest belt with their fingers raised, to observe a drone main them to the place the Ukrainian army was stationed earlier than they got here beneath fireplace.
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The thirty third Brigade mentioned that Russian troopers “made the precise choice to give up” earlier than the Russian military “fired at their very own.”
“A number of of them had been precisely mowed down,” it added. “Not all of them received into the nice fingers of our brigade.”
It’s unclear precisely what number of died and what number of managed to give up.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian Protection Ministry through e mail for remark.
Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin’s newly fashioned particular volunteer unit created to “preserve legislation and order” within the Kursk area amid an ongoing Ukrainian incursion is reported to have opened fireplace on Russian troops within the space.
Alexei Smirnov, performing head of Kursk, had introduced the creation of the armed volunteer unit known as “BARS-Kursk” on August 29, saying they might “guarantee safety” within the area.
In August, a Russian unit boasted on social media a few profitable drone-on-drone strike, solely to find later that they’d mistakenly shot down considered one of their very own unmanned aerial automobiles (UAVs).
The unit had used a DJI Mavic drone to shoot down what they initially believed to be a Ukrainian UAV in Avdiivka however the goal was truly a Zala ISR drone, which belonged to the Russian army.
Throughout the first quarter of this 12 months, the British Ministry of Defence issued an intelligence replace that discovered {that a} Russian Su-27 jet that was downed over Crimea on March 28 might have been the sufferer of pleasant fireplace attributable to a “lack of state of affairs consciousness and coordination.”
It mentioned there have “been earlier unconfirmed stories of comparable situations of pleasant fireplace occurring, normally following durations of Ukrainian motion in opposition to Russian forces.” Consequently, “[t]here’s a practical chance that fairly than a technical subject, the elevated stress and pressure amongst Russian air defence operators induced by the worry of additional Ukrainian motion results in them inadvertently participating their very own pilots and plane.”
It concluded: “This occasion, and others if confirmed, possible spotlight the shortage of situational consciousness and coordination between parts of the Russian armed forces, whereas additional demonstrating the second-order influence of Ukrainian actions.”
