Russian troops caught fleeing Ukrainian fire in ‘comedy of errors’

Russia's untrained soldiers branded 'chaotic' by former General

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Retired US General Mark Hertling has blasted the “chaotic” conduct of Russian forces after footage emerged of Putin’s troops overturning their armoured vehicle during an undisciplined retreat under fire. The footage, which has not been independently varied, shows a Russian squad hurriedly climbing atop an infantry fighting vehicle in a bid to flee a Ukrainian attack only to be sent flying when the BTR strikes a ditch. 

Mr Hertling told CNN “You’re seeing undisciplined soldiers across the board, soldiers from the very beginning that have jumped onto this BTR without uniforms.

“They’ve had their helmets askew some of them have baseball caps on backwards there are handing mortar rounds into the turret of this vehicle. 

“You’re hearing the track commander say ‘hang on, find a place to hang on’ soldier saying ‘I don’t know where to hang on.’

“The vehicle takes off you’re seeing a soldier losing their helmet as it flies down the road. There’s no wingman for this vehicle.”

“They suddenly go off in the ditch probably because some of the soldiers that are on top of the vehicles are blocking the driver’s view. It is just a comedy of error,” he continued. 

“I mean, these are the kinds of things that soldiers look for in an undisciplined, chaotic mob, not a group of soldiers and this is just representative of what we’ve seen in an untrained force from the very beginning.

“where in this case, I’m sure there were some soldiers either badly injured or perhaps even killed when that vehicle rolled over, and it was just because they don’t know how to perform the kinds of skills that are expected of soldiers on the battlefield.”

It comes after suspected Ukrainian maritime drones strike Russian ships based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.

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Footage supposedly recorded by the Ukrainian UAVs shows Russian forces desperately racking the sea with gunfire in an attempt to save their ships.

Kremlin officials looked to point the finger of blame for what they termed a “terrorist attack” on the UK, claiming with evidence that the British military had been aided the Ukrainian units involved in the audacious strike. 

Russia’s defence ministry said: “Nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous marine drones were involved in the attack.

“The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of servicemen of the Ukrainian 73rd Special Center for Naval Operations were carried out under the guidance of British specialists located in the town of Ochakiv.”

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Russia has also blamed the UK for the explosions which destroyed the Nordstream2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea last month.

On Saturday Russia said: “According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on 26 September this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.”

Russia has failed to provide evidence to back up its claims, while the initial blame for the sabotage fell on the Kremlin.

Sweden and Denmark have carried out investigations into the causes of the leaks and blamed them on explosions but did not go as far as to aside blame.

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