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A Russian colonel has died after being intentionally run down by his own troops, who were upset over the casualties in their unit, Western officials said Friday.
Russian “Colonel Medvechek of the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade” was killed after being run over by his soldiers as a “consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade,” the Evening Standard reported.
It was not immediately clear if the slain higher-up was the same person as Col. Yury Medvedev, who was reportedly wounded when run down by his own troops in a tank Thursday and evacuated to a Belarusian hospital.
The vehicular vengeance comes amid reports of plummeting morale in the Russian ranks.
With NATO estimating 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers killed in the fighting to date, purported communication intercepts show the Russians are still suffering from logistical failures.
“Basically, it’s a s–tshow here, I’ll put it that way,” a Russian soldier near Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, allegedly said to his comrade in a recording released earlier this week by Ukraine’s Security Service.
The soldier described how Ukrainian troops “tore apart” a column of Russian forces and added that 50 percent of his unit suffered from frostbite to the feet.
“But they don’t plan to treat them in the [field] hospital,” he said.
Russian soldiers also have complained that they were ignored when they reported that their Kevlar vests lack hardened panels, according to the phone call.
“‘Comrade General, damn it, I have this situation,’” the soldier recalls others telling their general. “And he just says, ‘Son, be strong,’ and then he f–ked off. It’s such trash here … Our own plane dropped a bomb on us.”
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