The above video was uploaded to my InspectorSmith channel at LBRY.
Toward the end on the video some of them are heard saying (in Ukrainian) that they engaged each other and to stop shooting. Others are heard saying that they’re dead.
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Well, don’t forget one of the saddest stories from the American War Between the States (sometimes inaccurately called “the Civil War” or alternatively “the War of the Northern Invasion”): General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Tragic accidents happen in war, and sometimes may determine the outcome of war.
On May 2, 1863, Stonewall and a troop of his best men had been returning, under the cover of night, from an intelligence-gathering mission when Confederate troops of the 18th North Carolina Infantry misidentified them as a Union cavalry scout team; as a result, the North Carolina troops opened fire. It was thus that eight days later, on May 10 of 1863, the Confederate States of America lost one of it’s greatest strategic geniuses and heroes, not to a Damnyankee sharpshooter, but to an inept and perhaps myopic (nearsighted) Confederate. Robert E. Lee predicted that this was the greatest and most tragic loss to the Army of Northern Virginia.
There have been many such instances in war throughout history000.
But one could say that the Confederate cause was cursed by friendly fire, and perhaps it was part of God’s Judgment against us in an accursedly mystical “trial-by-combat.”
A year before Stonewall Jackson died, during the Battle of Shiloh on 6 April 1862, another one of the CSA’s greatest military assets, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston was fatally wounded by a bullet that hit the back of his right knee when riding in advance of his troops. There were no Union troops observed to have got behind him and the bullet was identified by his surgeon as from a Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, which was standard issue in the Confederate Army, but not used at all by any of the Union troops present. Then a year later, during the “Battle of the Wilderness” on 6 May 1864, another great Confederate commander, Lieutenant General James Longstreet was wounded when his mounted column from the First Corps was mistaken for Federal troops. As a result of this, he did not return to command until October of that year. In the same incident, CSA Brigadier General Micah Jenkins of South Carolina was mortally wounded after being struck in the head.
We must not judge too harshly. Ukraine has done exceptionally well considering the size and population disparity with the Soviet Union.
@ Charles Edward Lincoln III:
I disagree. I don’t believe the Ukraine is doing well. Some people might think they are (especially when nearly all of the news is fake and there’s mainstream articles published every other day about 40,000 (or so) Russians being killed per day in the Ukraine).
I think the confusion arises from us being very used to a very different type of war called modern warfare or the way the US has fought wars for the last 20 years (or probably longer than that). It’s not that type of war in the Ukraine.
Russia doesn’t want to destroy the Ukraine itself or the Ukrainian people. Of course Russia in not going to go in like the US in the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and so on and destroy the place (electric, water, internet, etc.) and then go in an cut down innocent civilians and whatever’s left of their military.
Putin wants to replace the NWO President of the Ukraine and then install a pro-Russian government in the Ukraine. He doesn’t want to destroy the place or make enemies for life with ordinary Ukrainian people.