Destroyed Russian tank
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A Russian soldiers has reportedly run over his commander with his tank as a protest.

The soldier who drove the tank over the officer was said to have “blamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,” Roman Tsimbalyuk, a Ukrainian journalist, posted on Facebook.

The soldier waited for the moment during a battle when the commander would be standing next to the tank to run him over, the Daily Beast reported.

Both the commander’s legs were injured.

“Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus, waiting for monetary compensation for combat wounds received during the ‘special military operation to protect the Donbass.’ Colonel Medvedev was awarded the Order of Courage,” Tsimbalyuk wrote.

Footage of Medvedev being taken to the hospital was released by the head of Chechnya and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov.

The incident occurred after Russian soldiers suffered heavy losses in the Kyiv area. Tsymbalyuk said that they may have lost half their troops in multiple battles.

NATO said on Wednesday that it estimated between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the four-week old Ukraine war, the New York Post reported.

The Ukrainian government is reportedly offering Russian soldiers a $10,000 reward, guaranteed safety and potential citizenship to surrender their tanks. Using phone numbers they have found that are used by the Russian soldiers, they have been contacting them directly.

In response, Russian tank crews are allegedly surrendering and handing over fully operable tanks after getting the enticing offers of money and citizenship.

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Revealed: Russian commander 'has DIED after being run over with a tank by his own mutinous troops' 

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.

The official said of Colonel Medvedev: 'He was killed by his own troops we believe as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade,' they added. 'That gives an insight into some of the morale challenges the Russian forces are having.'

The official added that the colonel appeared to have been run down using a tank. 'We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately,' they said. 

The comments came after footage allegedly showed Colonel Medvedev being stretchered into a hospital after suffering severe injuries to his legs. 

The episode has echoes of 'Fragging' during the Vietnam War - when soldiers would take out hated officers by throwing grenades into their tents. 

Pictured: A still grab from a video allegedly showing Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev being stretchered into a hospital after suffering severe injuries to his legs.
A Ukrainian journalist has claimed that Medvedev (allegedly pictured here being stretchered into a hospital) was run over by a tank driven by his own soldier

Pictured: A still grab from a video allegedly showing Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev being stretchered into a hospital after suffering severe injuries to his legs. A Ukrainian journalist has claimed that Medvedev was run over by a tank driven by his own soldier

Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that Colonel Medvedev's tank battalion of 1,500 troops had lost around half its strength to either death or injury.

'A soldier, choosing a convenient moment during the battle, ran over his brigade commander, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, with a tank, injuring both his legs,' Tsimbalyuk wrote in his report to his followers.

'Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus and has already been awarded the Order of Courage.' He said the Colonel is now awaiting compensation.

There was no independent corroboration of the claim, but a video released by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - a close ally of Vladimir Putin - allegedly showed Medvedev being transported by medical troops to Belarus for hospital treatment.

One Chechen fighter - who are fighting under the Russian National Guard and directly under Putin's control - told him: 'Hold on…how are you? OK? Talk to us…

Medvedev replied: 'I'm OK. Where are you from?'

Pictured: Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev is allegedly lifted out of a military vehicle having been injured
Pictured: Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev is allegedly brought into a hospital in Belarus

There was no independent corroboration of the claim, but a video (pictured) released by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - a close ally of Vladimir Putin - allegedly showed Medvedev being transported by medical troops to Belarus for hospital treatment

The colonel was then told to keep wearing his bulletproof jacket, before being unloaded on a stretcher, with blankets covering his legs.

Tsimbalyuk did not say what happened to the soldier driving the tank, but the report follows several others suggesting low morale among Putin's forces who have been making little progress in Ukraine. 

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