Fury in Russia as convoy carrying 100 conscripts is obliterated by Ukrainian drones when blundering commander orders trucks to drive in a line through open fields, leaving them sitting ducks

Russians have been angered by viral footage of a devastating Ukrainian drone attack on a convoy of trucks, seen as the latest example of incompetence at the higher levels of Moscow’s bloody offensive.

The video circulating in Telegram shows the moment Ukrainian drones attacked the convoy of 100 conscripts in Russia’s Kursk region, leaving one truck engulfed in flames as smoke billowed high into the sky.

Aerial drone footage shows the military column trying to disperse as Ukrainian kamikaze drones continued to bombard them with attacks and chase them one by one along the road through open fields.

Notes from one veteran, a Russian mil blogger who wrote for an audience of more than 300,000 people, complained: “Last week I wrote about the movement of military columns five miles from the border. Nothing has changed since then, except that the columns have become longer… It is the third year of the war.’

There was a convoy of 15 trucks Reportedly taken out by FPV drones, two miles from the Ukrainian border with Russia’s Sumy region. It is unclear how many victims were killed in the strike.

Ukrainian kamikaze drones destroy Russian military convoy in Kursk region, Russia

A military truck explodes when hit during the attack on the convoy

Aerial drone footage shows the military column dispersing after the first hits, but the Ukrainian drone operators chased the dispersed vehicles

A truck is seen exploding after being hit by a Ukrainian drone

Smoke rises from the defeated convoy, just two miles from the Ukrainian border

Roman Alekhin, a self-described social analyst and military volunteer, wrote to some 130,000 subscribers that Russia should “find other logistical routes and split up groups… even if the distance is greater,” Newsweek reported.

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

So far, Ukraine’s Western allies have supplied weapons to Ukraine, provided they are not used to shooting at Russia.

But tensions have escalated as new images also show what is believed to be the first major use of Western-made weapons to destroy targets in Russia.

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

Russia responded through Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, threatening the US with “fatal consequences” for “miscalculations.”

The Kremlin warned today that Western military instructors training Ukrainian soldiers in the country would not have “immunity” against Russian attacks, the latest development in the row since the US allowed Ukraine to use some of its donated weapons in Russia.

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

The US allowed Ukraine to use certain US weapons in attacks on Russia to repel the reopened Russian offensive in the northern city of Kharkiv, but stopped without giving the green light to the use of ground-launched ATACMS missiles, which deliver devastating blows over long distances.

Last month, Russia reopened its advance in the Kharkov region and quickly captured several villages.

Ukraine is struggling to repel the attack despite the US offering another $275 million in military aid.

However, pressure from Russia caused the US to relent on restrictions placed on using its donations exclusively to Russian targets in Ukraine, allowing attacks across the border to be authorized for the first time.

“The hallmark of our engagement has been to adapt and adapt as necessary, to accommodate what is actually going on on the battlefield, to ensure that Ukraine gets what it needs, when it needs it has,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last Friday. .

Pilots of the “Sharp Kartuza” division of FPV kamikaze drones prepare drones for a combat flight on May 16 in the Kharkiv region

In recent days, Russian forces have gained ground around the Kharkiv region, which Ukraine had largely recaptured

At the border with Russia, Ukrainian soldiers prepare drones for battle on May 16

The foreign minister said Ukraine was right to launch an attack on targets in Russia

Days later, the Netherlands said it would allow Ukraine to use its F-16 jets to carry out attacks in Russia.

The use of the aircraft is also not limited to the border area near Kharkiv, as is the case with 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 at his discretion.

‘We don’t discuss the comments we make about those things. But let’s be very clear: Russia has launched an attack on Ukraine and Ukraine absolutely has the right to strike back against Russia,” he told reporters during a visit to Kiev.

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