{"id":1492,"date":"2022-03-24T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/its-a-shtshow-russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-yahoo-news\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:28:22","slug":"its-a-shtshow-russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-yahoo-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/its-a-shtshow-russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-yahoo-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a Sh*tshow\u2019: Russian Troops Are Now Turning on Each Other &#8211; Yahoo News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Russian soldiers have been caught venting about Putin\u2019s \u201cbullshit\u201d war against Ukraine in an intercepted phone call as devastating losses reportedly led one soldier to drive over his colonel with a tank.<br \/>\u201cBasically, it\u2019s a shitshow here, I\u2019ll put it that way,\u201d an unnamed soldier near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine can be heard telling a colleague in a <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/bWIwrEscr8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recording released by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service\" class=\"link\">recording released by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service<\/a> late Tuesday.<br \/>After telling his friend that Ukrainian forces \u201ctore apart\u201d a column of Russian forces sent along with his own unit, he described complete disarray among the Russian military, with 50 percent of the unit suffering from frostbite on their feet.<br \/>\u201cBut they don\u2019t plan to treat them in the [field] hospital,\u201d he said.<br \/>On the fourth day of their deployment, he said, the general commanding the unit, General-Lieutenant Yakov Rezantsev, told them it\u2019d be over quickly.<br \/>\u201cDo you know what he told us? \u2018It\u2019s no secret to anyone that there are only a few hours until this special operation is over.\u2019 And now those hours are still going.\u201d<br \/>He said soldiers are complaining about having Kevlar vests that lack the hard-armor panel, but they are ignored.<br \/>\u201c\u2018Comrade General, damn it, I have this situation,\u2019\u201d he recalled troops telling their leader. \u201cAnd he just says, \u2018Son, be strong,\u2019 and then he fucks off. It\u2019s such trash here\u2026 our own plane dropped a bomb on us,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cThey couldn\u2019t even send off the 200s here,\u201d he said, using a Russian military term for dead bodies. \u201cThey rode with us for five days.\u201d<br \/>\u201cEven in Chechnya, there was nothing like this,\u201d he said, describing the situation as a \u201cmadhouse.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThis \u2018special operation,\u2019 damnit\u2026 with respect to homes not meant to be destroyed\u2026 it\u2019s bullshit.\u201d<br \/>Even though \u201con TV\u201d they said the Russian troops were advancing, they were actually surrounded \u201con all sides\u201d by Ukrainian forces, he said.<br \/>The damning conversation was released as reports surfaced that things were so bad for Russian troops that it led one soldier to attack a colonel he blamed for troop losses.<br \/>Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk reported Wednesday that two tactical groups of Russian soldiers in Makarov, in the Kyiv region, lost at least half of their men in battles against Ukrainian forces.<br \/>One of the Russian soldiers \u201cblamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,\u201d Tsymbaliuk wrote on Facebook.<br \/>\u201cHaving waited for the right moment, during battle, he ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs. Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus, waiting for monetary compensation for combat wounds received during the \u2018special military operation to protect the Donbass.\u2019 Colonel Medvedev was awarded the Order of Courage,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>The Daily Beast could not independently confirm Tsymbaliuk\u2019s version of events, but Putin lackey and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed Medvedev was injured during fighting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/ramzan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:VK post\" class=\"link\">VK post<\/a> this month.<br \/>Alongside a video of an injured Medvedev being evacuated on March 11 by Chechen troops sent in to bolster Russian forces, Kadyrov claimed Medvedev\u2019s rescue was proof of how successful Putin\u2019s \u201cde-Nazification\u201d of Ukraine was.<br \/>\u201cThere are no more threats to [Medvedev\u2019s] life. I hope that he will soon be back on his feet,\u201d he said, before adding that \u201csuch moments on the battlefield bring us together.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/russian-troops-are-now-turning-on-each-other-its-a-shtshow-one-soldier-is-recorded-telling-another?source=articles&amp;via=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read more at The Daily Beast.\" class=\"link\">Read more at The Daily Beast.<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsletters?via=rss&amp;source=footer_link_newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get the Daily Beast&#39;s biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. Sign up now.\" class=\"link\">Get the Daily Beast&#39;s biggest scoops and scandals delivered right to your inbox. 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He allegedly returned with a gun of his own and pointed it at the other man\u2019s head.<br \/>Authorities said she was driving a Maserati which crashed into numerous vehicles.<br \/>An arrest has been made after an overnight crash on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad left a person dead and multiple trapped and injured early Wednesday morning.<br \/>A 23-year-old woman visiting a Disney park alleged on TikTok that she was &quot;dress coded&quot; and asked to wear a replacement shirt.<br \/>Harris had her spokeswoman Symone Sanders complain to Vogue&#x27;s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, about the photo, a forthcoming book says.<br \/>&quot;You can bang it as loud as you want,&quot; Cruz said after a visibly frustrated Durbin hit his gavel twice.<br \/>The far-right Georgia Republican&#x27;s admission is put on loop in progressive PAC MeidasTouch&#x27;s spot.<br \/>One of President Vladimir Putin&#x27;s closest allies warned the United States on Wednesday that the world could spiral towards a nuclear dystopia if Washington pressed on with what the Kremlin casts as a long-term plot to destroy Russia.  Dmitry Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia&#x27;s Security Council, said the United States had conspired to destroy Russia as part of an &quot;primitive game&quot; since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.  &quot;It means Russia must be humiliated, limited, shattered, divided and destroyed,&quot; Medvedev, 56, said in a 550-word statement.<br \/>The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine said she couldn\u2019t do it \u201cif I wanted to keep my integrity intact.\u201d<br \/>NYPDThe Queens resident believed to have killed a beloved singing coach on the sidewalk earlier this month called the woman a \u201cbitch\u201d before fatally shoving her, prosecutors said Tuesday.Lauren Pazienza then allegedly lingered in the neighborhood to watch as emergency services arrived to help Barbara Maier Gustern, 87. Gustern was transported to a hospital and died of severe head trauma five days later, according to the New York Police Department. She did not regain consciousness.Pazienza and Gu<br \/>An expert told The New York Times that Russia&#x27;s military failures in its monthlong war with Ukraine had caused tension within Putin&#x27;s inner circle.<br \/>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday grew increasingly combative in his line of questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson, asking President Biden&#x27;s Supreme Court nominee about her religious faith, her defense of Guant\u00e1namo Bay prisoners and whether she was aware of what he said were left-wing attacks on his preferred nominee to the court.Graham has been seen as a swing GOP vote on Jackson given his support for previous Democratic judicial nominees&#8230;<br \/>\u2018That\u2019s one I wished I hadn\u2019t done,\u2019 said star<br \/>&quot;I think it&#x27;s a great adjustment \u2014 it looks amazing on her,&quot; says Willow Hilson, the boutique owner who sold the dress to the Duchess of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/sh-tshow-russian-troops-now-112804337.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Russian soldiers have been caught venting about Putin\u2019s \u201cbullshit\u201d war against Ukraine in an intercepted phone call as devastating losses reportedly led one soldier to drive over his colonel with a tank.\u201cBasically, it\u2019s a shitshow here, I\u2019ll put it that way,\u201d an unnamed soldier near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine can be heard telling a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}