Russian brigade commander in Ukraine – Colonel Yuri Medvedev – said to have been killed by his own troops. Western officials said the mutiny was down to the scale of losses being suffered by his brigade in Ukraine. 20 out of Putin’s 120 battalions stationed in or around the country said to have been rendered inoperative. A Russian brigade commander in Ukraine has died after being run down with a tank by his own mutinous troops, it was revealed today. Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out after his 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. A lieutenant general commanding the 49th Combined Arms Army has also died in the fighting – the seventh to perish in the war. News of Colonel Medvedev’s fate – backed by recent footage of the extraordinary episode – came amid claims that 20 of the 120 battalions massed by Vladimir Putin have been rendered inoperative by Ukraine’s staunch resistance. However, Putin is said to be assembling at least 10 more to shore up his army, with officials warning that shows he is going ‘all in’ behind his ‘botched’ invasion – and could be preparing to launch a chemical attack to turn the tide. A Western official said Russia’s failure to organise so far has been ‘remarkable’, pouring scorn on claims today that it had achieved the main military objectives. They said that losses had been ‘really high’ in some areas. At the outset 115-120 battalion tactical groups were in the Russian force, but 20 battalions were now not thought to be ‘combat effective’ and had been withdrawn, either because repairs were needed to vehicles or because of massive losses.
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