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| Fury in Russia as convoy hit by Ukrainian drones in open field |
| 2024-06-05 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Convoy carrying 100 conscripts is obliterated by Ukrainian drones when blundering commander orders trucks to drive in a line through open fields, leaving them sitting ducks. Russians have erupted furiously at viral footage of a devastating Ukrainian drone strike on a convoy of trucks, deemed the latest example of incompetence at the higher levels of Moscow's bloody offensive. Video circulating Telegram shows the moment Ukrainian drones smashed into the convoy carrying 100 conscripts in Russia's Kursk region, leaving one truck in flames as smoke billowed high into the sky. Aerial drone footage shows how the military column tried to disperse as Ukrainian kamikaze drones continued to pelt them with strikes, hunting them down one by one along the road through open fields. Notes from a Veteran, a Russian milblogger writing to an audience of more than 300,000, lamented: 'Just last week I wrote about the movement of military columns eight kilometres from the border. Since then, nothing has changed except that the columns have become longer... It is the third year of the war.' A convoy of 15 trucks was reportedly taken out by FPV drones two miles from the Ukrainian border with Russia's Sumy region. It was unclear how many casualties were created in the strike. Roman Alekhin, a self-described social analyst and military volunteer, wrote to some 130,000 subscribers that Russia 'must look for different logistics routes and split up groups... even if the distance is greater,' Newsweek reported. The attack appeared to be carried out by Ukrainian drones. Read More Russian soldier reveals just 12 of his 100-strong company are left after merciless commanders marched them into a 'bloodbath' assault in Ukraine while warning troops 'you can't retreat' Until now, Ukraine's Western allies have supplied weapons to Ukraine on condition that they are not used to fire into Russia. But tensions have escalated with new footage also showing what is believed to be the first major use of Western-made weapons to destroy targets in Russia. It is believed the Ukrainian military struck a S-300 or S-400 air defence system using US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and completely destroyed it in a devastating attack earlier this week. Russia responded via Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatening the US with 'fatal consequences' for 'miscalculations'. The Kremlin today warned that Western army instructors training Ukrainian soldiers in the country would have no 'immunity' from Russian strikes, the latest development in the spat since the US gave permission for Ukraine to use some of its donated weapons in Russia. |
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