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Ukraine Bill Makes it Legal for Anyone to Kill Russian Soldiers.Newsweek has contacted Ukraine's and Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment. However, the identity and death of a tank commander has not been publicly confirmed by Russia. These reports credit this information to Ukrainian media or Ukrainian forces. The Guardian and Sky News report that the commander that was killed in the attack was Colonel Andrei Zakharov. They're well within range of Ukrainian artillery in Kyiv, they're on an obvious avenue of approach, and they still decided to bunch up like this, leaving them more vulnerable to indirect fire,' Lee noted. 'Very poor tactics displayed by this Russian armored force so close to Kyiv. It appears it was a mix of Ukrainian artillery and tank strikes on the column.' Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute think tank, commenting on the drone footage on Twitter, said: 'According to the audio, the regimental commander was killed. Filmed in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv,' the caption reads. 'This video of a Russian military column coming under attack and retreating was geolocated to 50.587111, 30.837889 by and confirmed by Bellingcat. This video of a Russian military column coming under attack and retreating was geolocated to 50.587111, 30.837889 by and confirmed by Bellingcat. Russian forces are closing in on Kyiv as the invasion enters its third week.

The video shows shells landing amid a tight-knit bunch of about two dozen Russian tanks in a residential area and then the tanks milling about in confusion as they try to get out of range. Attacked by a drone,' according to a Newsweek translation. They said: 'A lot of casualties, ambushed. This is thought to have been intercepted by Ukrainian forces, according to reports. The video is also overlaid with audio of what appears to be a Russian officer speaking to his superiors about the ambush. The video footage, shot from the drone, shows the moment a convoy of Russian tanks was hit by Ukrainian shells and the convoy's initial response to the attack. A Russian commander has allegedly been killed after a tank convoy was ambushed in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv, on Thursday.īellingcat, an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists, posted drone footage of the attack and claimed it had confirmed the footage was filmed in Brovary.

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