Exclusive: Russian soldiers 'literally running' for their lives as chain of command collapses

The Telegraph ^ | September 11, 2022 | Campbell MacDiarmid

[Timber Rattler]

Panicked Russian soldiers are abandoning their tanks, weapons and even clothes as they "literally run from their positions" in the face of a shock Ukrainian offensive, soldiers have told The Telegraph.

A Ukrainian intelligence unit on the front line said the Russian chain of command was broken and soldiers were fleeing without putting up a fight, many of them changing into civilian clothes to avoid detection.

A drone operator returning from the front line on Sunday also told The Telegraph that the speed of the offensive had even taken their own army by surprise, with troops struggling to recover the mountains of Russian ammunition and armoured vehicles left behind.

Watching the battles through reconnaissance drones and listening to Russian communications, the soldiers said Russian units were being obliterated before they had time to identify their enemy, while survivors fled amid the chaos.

In one intercepted communication, a commander with the callsign Birdie described hearing a Russian tank unit desperately asking what had happened to their command. “‘We are totally f—ed’.

“Then they fled. Later we found their burned tank.”

[Timber Rattler]

Gettin' out of Dodge!

This video claims to show Russian forces fleeing the eastern front and crossing the Oskil River

[marcusmaximus]

Reports that some captured Russian troops disguised as women, too.

[TexasFreeper2009]

would be almost funny if real innocent Ukrainians were not dying also :(

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

in Texas we call that pulling a Santa Anna!

[buwaya]

A commenter in Youtube noted they seem to all be trucks and cars, no heavy weapons.

[dforest]

Yeah, I heard they captured Zelensky dressed as a woman in high heels and twerkin’ for the troops.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

It's hard to know how much credibility to give to these kind of reports. How would you even know that the burned-out tank you later saw was in fact the Russian Commander whose radio message you allegedly intercepted before? Doesn't make much sense.

That being said, I'm sure the general picture of a major Ukrainian advance and a disorganized Russian retreat in Kharkiv Oblast is correct. But I don't believe the details being reported at this point.

[buwaya]

Other rumors have it that the there may have been some agreement with the Ukes to let them run, as long as they left the tanks and stuff behind. It would have been so easy to block them.

[Snowybear]

Any report like this from the Ukranians is usually 100% bovine scat.

-SB

[PIF]

The dozens of videos of captured intact tanks and fighting vehicles were staged by a select group of UA commandos who snuck behind the brave Russian soldiers and filmed during their lunch break.

[Iceclimber58]

Ghost of Kiev must be after them.

[Flick Lives]

...many of them changing into civilian clothes to avoid detection.

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Because everyone in a war zone packs their civilian clothes.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ukrainian troops have now surrounded Moscow. Putin has fled the country. 😆

[azsportsterman]

Well, yeah, I did, and so did everyone I deployed with.

[Flick Lives]

Well, yeah, I did, and so did everyone I deployed with.

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But did you carry your civilian clothes into battle?

[Kazan]

More laughable horse sh$t. Are you trying to takeover for Marcus Maximus as the head clown in Clown World?

This garbage isn't believable to anyone with half a brain.

[FreshPrince]

This aged well:

“Some of them are desperate to cling to the fantasy that the Ukes aren’t losing and losing badly.
49 posted on 7/22/2022, 7:05:27 PM by FLT-bird”

[FreshPrince]

Yeo and he still managed the time to kick Russian ass with those heels

[azsportsterman]

We did

[marcusmaximus]

Happy Kherson referendum day!