Fury in Russia as convoy carrying 100 conscripts is wiped out by Ukrainian drones when bungling commander orders trucks to drive in line across open fields, leaving them as easy targets

Russians have erupted in fury over viral footage of a devastating Ukrainian drone strike on a truck convoy, seen as the latest example of incompetence at the highest levels of Moscow’s bloody offensive.

A video circulating on Telegram shows the moment Ukrainian drones rammed the convoy carrying 100 conscripts in Russia’s Kursk region, leaving a truck in flames as smoke rose high into the sky.

Aerial drone footage shows how the military column tried to disperse as Ukrainian suicide drones continued to bombard them with strikes, tracking them down one by one along the road across open fields.

Veteran’s Notes, a Russian military blogger, writing to an audience of more than 300,000, lamented: “Just last week I wrote about the movement of military columns five miles from the border. Since then, nothing has changed, except that the columns have lengthened… This is the third year of the war.

A convoy of 15 trucks was reportedly taken by FPV drones three kilometers from the Ukrainian border with the Russian region of Sumy. It is unclear how many casualties were caused by the strike.

Roman Alekhin, a social analyst and self-described military volunteer, wrote to some 130,000 followers that Russia “needs to look for different logistics routes and split the groups…even if the distance is greater,” Newsweek reported.

The attack appears to have been carried out by Ukrainian drones.

Until now, Ukraine’s Western allies supplied it with weapons on the condition that they would not be used to fire on Russia.

But tensions have risen with new footage also showing what is believed to be the first major use of Western-made weapons to destroy targets in Russia.

It is believed that the Ukrainian military struck an S-300 or S-400 air defense system using the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and completely destroyed it during a devastating attack earlier this week.

Russia responded through Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, threatening the United States with “fatal consequences” in the event of “miscalculations.”

The Kremlin warned today that Western army instructors training Ukrainian soldiers in the country would have no “immunity” from Russian strikes, the latest development since the United States authorized the Ukraine to use some of its weapons donated to Russia.

“Instructors engaged in training the Ukrainian regime do not benefit from any immunity. It doesn’t matter whether they are French or not,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters.

The United States has authorized Ukraine to use some American weapons in strikes against Russia to help repel a renewed Russian offensive in the northern city of Kharkiv, but has not not given the green light to the use of ground-launched ATACMS missiles, delivering devastating long-range strikes.

Last month, Russia resumed its advance in the Kharkiv region and quickly captured several villages.

Ukraine struggled to repel the attack, despite the U.S. offer of an additional $275 million in military aid.

Russia’s efforts, however, allowed the United States to admit restrictions on using its donations only on Russian targets in Ukraine, allowing attacks across the border for the first time.

“The hallmark of our commitment has been to adapt and adjust as necessary, to respond to what is actually happening on the battlefield, to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs, when it needs it. needs,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. .

A few days later, the Netherlands announced that it would allow Ukraine to use its F-16 jets to carry out strikes in Russia.

The use of the planes is also not limited to the border region near Kharkiv, as is the case for American weapons.

The developments follow comments from British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, who said in May that he would support Ukraine using British-supplied missiles as it sees fit.

“We don’t discuss the reservations we have about these things. But let’s be absolutely clear: Russia launched an attack against Ukraine and Ukraine has absolutely the right to retaliate against Russia,” he told reporters during a visit to kyiv.

The UK has supplied billions of pounds of munitions, including long-range Storm Shadow missiles, to Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces since Putin’s 2022 invasion.