THIS is the moment Russia lost a dozen elite marines when they cooked food on an open fire and triggered an explosion from nearby live ammunition.
Eight more were wounded in the incident that Vladimir Putin’s regime has sought to cover-up.
Video of the explosion shows a massive explosion followed by a piercing roar before plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.
An RPG-7 grenade launcher shell reportedly caught fire and exploded on Kuzminsky’s military ground in the Rostov region on the border with Ukraine.
Eight of the Marines of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Separate Guard, in Vladivostok, were killed instantly.
Four other people died in hospital, Rostov’s News 166 newspaper reported, adding that the humiliating tragedy had been revealed through three independent sources.
A case has been opened for a first-time offender for alleged violation of protection rules.
The commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Viktor Liina, 55, commander of the Pacific Fleet, went to the educational base to read the insurrection act after the error, it was reported.
I had the idea that those troops would be deployed in Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine.
The dead and wounded were named during the midday meal.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has spoken out about the fiasco.
A serviceman who witnessed the horror revealed details but it has taken since it occurred on 3 November to verify the details.
This is the only shameful mistake made by Russian soldiers.
In April we reported that dozens of infantrymen were suffering from radiation sickness after completing their project near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Ukrainians living in the area shared how they tried to warn Vladimir Putin’s soldiers against camping in a forest near the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.
And the incident occurred when a “drunk” Russian soldier threw a £400 million missile defence formula into a roadside ditch.
The high-tech S-400 anti-aircraft rocket launcher left a road while driving in a convoy with other army cars in Russia’s Tula region.
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