Is it fake? I don't know.
What it is, like much of the news from the region, is unverifiable. There's a difference.
An anonymous "Western official" with no citation said this happened and the MSM reported it. Take it for what it's worth.
Don’t confuse LaserJet with logic when he or she has a good Emotive Rant going on!
Could result in the normal name-calling so regularly employed by the supporters of the MSM Ukraine narrative and propaganda.
I don’t know if it’s fake either, but I tend to believe this particular report, since they name the Russian unit and the officer. It could still be fake, but I see no reason to assume that it is, like a lot of lunatics here automatically do.