The Dumb Gun Collector
05-01-22, 22:29
This story is sure to get the Putin cheerleaders charged up....
While both groups are supposed to be fighting for the same side, GUR said a conflict between the non-Slavic groups arose when Buryat soldiers from Russia’s Eastern Military District refused to continue fighting.
There were additional reports that Buryatia troops were upset over “inequality” in the division of looted goods, with Chechen forces reportedly taking the lion’s share of booty plundered from Ukraine.
“More than 50 participants from each side were noted in the night incident,” read a statement by GUR. “The exact number of injured and dead is currently unknown.”
The Kherson region where the fight broke out has been under Russian control since shortly after the invasion began on February 24, and The Debrief has been unable to independently confirm the claims.
However, a conflict erupting between the two groups of non-ethnic Russian fighters is not particularly surprising.
Russian Buryat
Russian soldiers from Buryatia. (Image Source: Infonapalam.org)
According to analysts monitoring the war in Ukraine, soldiers of Russia’s poorest regions have made up the majority of Russian casualties so far.
In an April 25 report, exiled Russian independent media outlet Mediazona found that almost no residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg (which accounts for some 12% of Russia’s population) were among those killed in action.
Meanwhile, soldiers from the North Caucasus region of Dagestan and Buryatia in eastern Siberia accounted for most of the reported deaths. The median annual income in both areas is roughly 252,000 rubles, or $3,528.
A separate report by the Moscow Times found that two formations from Buryatia, the 11th Guards Separate Air Assault Brigade and 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, had suffered the most significant single unit losses in the war to date.
Descension between Buryat troops and Chechen Kadyrovites could be evidenced in late March when Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov shared a video of 37th Guards Motor Rifle Bridge commander, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, being transported to a field hospital after being run over by an armored vehicle near Makariv.
Medvedev would ultimately succumb to his injuries to join the growing list of KIA soldiers from Buryatia.
Both Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources later revealed Medvedev had been intentionally run over by one of his own soldiers who was angered by the high numbers of combat losses suffered in Ukraine.
“Basically, it’s a shit show here,” a Buryat soldier from the 37th Guards Motor Rifle Bridge told a colleague in a phone call intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence. “It’s such trash here … our own plane dropped a bomb on us.”
https://thedebrief.org/russian-buryat-soldiers-get-in-a-shootout-with-each-other/?fbclid=IwAR1QE2Jp2eU_2QELp8RgFrtXIHn2-tZhsIPJ6iErbnTcfEm6NTZD58r1qgs
While both groups are supposed to be fighting for the same side, GUR said a conflict between the non-Slavic groups arose when Buryat soldiers from Russia’s Eastern Military District refused to continue fighting.
There were additional reports that Buryatia troops were upset over “inequality” in the division of looted goods, with Chechen forces reportedly taking the lion’s share of booty plundered from Ukraine.
“More than 50 participants from each side were noted in the night incident,” read a statement by GUR. “The exact number of injured and dead is currently unknown.”
The Kherson region where the fight broke out has been under Russian control since shortly after the invasion began on February 24, and The Debrief has been unable to independently confirm the claims.
However, a conflict erupting between the two groups of non-ethnic Russian fighters is not particularly surprising.
Russian Buryat
Russian soldiers from Buryatia. (Image Source: Infonapalam.org)
According to analysts monitoring the war in Ukraine, soldiers of Russia’s poorest regions have made up the majority of Russian casualties so far.
In an April 25 report, exiled Russian independent media outlet Mediazona found that almost no residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg (which accounts for some 12% of Russia’s population) were among those killed in action.
Meanwhile, soldiers from the North Caucasus region of Dagestan and Buryatia in eastern Siberia accounted for most of the reported deaths. The median annual income in both areas is roughly 252,000 rubles, or $3,528.
A separate report by the Moscow Times found that two formations from Buryatia, the 11th Guards Separate Air Assault Brigade and 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, had suffered the most significant single unit losses in the war to date.
Descension between Buryat troops and Chechen Kadyrovites could be evidenced in late March when Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov shared a video of 37th Guards Motor Rifle Bridge commander, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, being transported to a field hospital after being run over by an armored vehicle near Makariv.
Medvedev would ultimately succumb to his injuries to join the growing list of KIA soldiers from Buryatia.
Both Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources later revealed Medvedev had been intentionally run over by one of his own soldiers who was angered by the high numbers of combat losses suffered in Ukraine.
“Basically, it’s a shit show here,” a Buryat soldier from the 37th Guards Motor Rifle Bridge told a colleague in a phone call intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence. “It’s such trash here … our own plane dropped a bomb on us.”
https://thedebrief.org/russian-buryat-soldiers-get-in-a-shootout-with-each-other/?fbclid=IwAR1QE2Jp2eU_2QELp8RgFrtXIHn2-tZhsIPJ6iErbnTcfEm6NTZD58r1qgs