{"id":49372,"date":"2022-11-17T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49372"},"modified":"2023-11-17T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:14:43","slug":"friendly-fire-russian-soldiers-were-shot-by-other-russians-while-fleeing-from-kherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/17\/friendly-fire-russian-soldiers-were-shot-by-other-russians-while-fleeing-from-kherson\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly fire: Russian soldiers were shot by other Russians while fleeing from Kherson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wars casualties usually occur, with some frequency, due to shootings between forces of the same side due to confusing situations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/31\/the-accident-of-a-russian-armored-vehicle-in-its-swift-escape-from-a-ukrainian-attack\/\">The accident of a Russian armored vehicle in its swift escape from a Ukrainian attack<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/25\/dozens-of-chechen-militiamen-die-in-ukraine-due-to-an-indiscretion-on-tiktok\/\">Dozens of Chechen militiamen die in Ukraine due to an indiscretion on TikTok<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>A precipitous and panic-stricken withdrawal can lead to such situations, and such withdrawals have been seen lately in the Russian ranks in the face of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. An example of this is a video broadcast today by <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ssternenko\/10978\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Ukrainian Telegram channel Sternenko<\/a>. The footage shows <strong>five Russian soldiers<\/strong> (the four in the video and the one holding the camera) <strong>fleeing in a boat from the west bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson and being shot at. by other Russians<\/strong> from the opposite bank.<em> \"<strong>In the video, one of the occupants can be heard screaming that he was injured<\/strong>\"<\/em>, Sternenko notes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rusos contra rusos en Jers\u00f3n\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZNYnWZHJW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots of the video, with some details of what happened. At the beginning we see <strong>one of the Russian soldiers throwing what looks like a grenade at another boat<\/strong>, perhaps to disable it and prevent it from being used by Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52506608369_8d234bdf7a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few seconds later, <strong>one of the Russian soldiers fired at the boat they left behind<\/strong>, perhaps to finish disabling it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52506338691_06b743e5ce_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>These shots seem to alert the Russian troops on the eastern bank of the Dnieper<\/strong>, who begin firing at the Russian soldiers on the boat. They wave at them and yell at them not to shoot them. From the helmets, the uniforms (with Multicam-style camouflage) and the weapon (equipped with a silencer) <strong> it seems that they are members of a Russian special operations unit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52506812395_0f7d5fd891_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a clip of the video we see <strong>one of the Russian soldiers on the boat wearing a plastic-injected patch with the \"Z\"<\/strong> that became so popular with Russian troops in the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52506890083_c1de38dc5b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wars casualties usually occur, with some frequency, due to shootings between forces of the same side due to confusing situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[16426,10731,12043,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-49372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-kherson","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:56:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}