Brazen Russian soldiers who flew American flag into battle ‘are KILLED on frontline by Ukrainians' after sick taunt
An armoured vehicle was filmed this week adorned with the flags of both Russia and the United States in the wake of Donald Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin.
8
8
8
8
The mocking stunt appeared to suggest that the US is now helping Russia in its brutal invasion and occupation of swathes of Ukraine.
But the twisted Russian troops weren't laughing for long.
Military analysts have reported that the vehicle's crew have been killed in battle since it was filmed heading towards Zaporizhzhia.
Blogger MilitaryNewsUA posted on X: "Russian channels write that the Russian crew of the Gaz-71, which had American and Russian flags installed on it, died during the assault on Ukrainian positions."
It comes as Russia continues to sustain heavy casualties in its attempts to push further into Ukrainian territory.
Russia's total casualties - meaning troops killed or wounded - in Ukraine exceeded one million back in June.
The head of the Centre for the Study of the Occupation, Petr Andryushchenko, previously said: "The Russians have already declared the United States an ally and are storming Mala Tokmachka in M113 armoured personnel carriers….with Russian and American flags.
"This is the logical conclusion to all of Trump's absurdity.
"And all of this is on the official propaganda channel of Russia Today. There are no words."
Vladimir Putin came out of the diplomatic deep freeze last Friday when he met with Donald Trump in Alaska for a peace summit.
While no ceasefire deal emerged following the meeting, Russia has spun the summit as a diplomatic win for the Kremlin after years of increased isolation.
Trump told reporters: "There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say.
"A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway."
Fears have since grown in Western capitals that Trump may try to force Ukraine into surrendering further territory to Moscow in exchange for peace.
Putin has signalled that he wants to take control of the whole Donbas region as a pre-condition for an end to the war.
Russian forces occupy large swathes of the two provinces that make up this region - Donetsk and Luhansk.
8
8
But Ukraine still controls the strategically critical "fortress belt" in Donetsk, that analysts fear could be used by Moscow as a launchpad for future invasions.
It prompted European leaders to fly to Washington and accompany Volodymyr Zelensky for crunch peace talks with Trump on Monday.
The Ukrainian war leader sought to shore up American and European security guarantees for his country in the event of a halt to the fighting.
Donald Trump has ruled out putting US boots on the ground - and has dashed Ukrainian hopes of joining Nato.
He said instead: "We've got the European nations, and they'll front-load it.
"When it comes to security, the Europeans are willing to put people on the ground."
The White House is now pushing for a trilateral meeting with Trump, Putin and Zelensky to further peace discussions.
Will there be a summit with Putin?
VLADIMIR Putin has failed to publicly commit to a sit down with Volodymyr Zelensky off back of duelling summits with Donald Trump.
It came after a love-in at the White House yesterday which saw Zelensky and Trump smooth over their differences and appear to pave the way for peace.
The Ukrainian leader said he was "ready" to speak to Putin in-person under any circumstances.
And any face-to-face showdown - which would be their first since the start of the war in February 2022 - could be followed by a trilateral summit with Donald Trump.
So far however the Kremlin have remained coy on any details, despite Vlad reportedly telling Trump he was interested in talks.
Moscow have remained publicly silent - and there have been no details released about when, or where, such a historic summit could occur.
Efforts have previously been made to bring Zelensky and Putin together - with the Ukrainian leader even challenging Vlad to meet in Istanbul back in May.
Silence from the Russian side raises fears that once again the tyrant could torpedo any attempt for talks at the highest level.
8
8
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Independent
17 minutes ago
- The Independent
Russian drone strike sees firefighters battle huge blaze at Ukrainian energy facility
An overnight Russian drone strike caused a huge fire at an energy facility in Odesa, Ukraine on Wednesday (20 August), Volodymyr Zelensky said. Footage shared by the Ukrainian president shows firefighters tackling the massive blaze, whilst emergency service workers appear to help individuals climb down from the wreckage. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine confirmed that one person was injured in the attack. Posting the footage, Mr Zelensky said: 'All of these are demonstrative strikes that only confirm the need to put pressure on Moscow, the need to impose new sanctions and tariffs until diplomacy is fully effective.'
Daily Mail
17 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Trump's latest attempt to release secret Epstein files rebuffed as 'diversion' by Clinton-appointed judge
Donald Trump was handed another blow on Wednesday when a federal judge denied his administration's attempts to release grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman deemed Trump's Justice Department did not provide adequate reasoning to unseal the highly-protected materials. He also said that the grand jury motion was likely a 'diversion' coming from the Trump administration. '[T]he court denies the government's motion to unseal the Epstein grand jury transcripts and exhibits,' the Clinton-appointed judge wrote in his Wednesday decision. It comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi moved at the direct of the president this summer to request the documents be unsealed in attempts to satisfy Americans who were enraged over the lackluster review of the Epstein files. This story is breaking and will be updated.
Telegraph
18 minutes ago
- Telegraph
To Americans, Britain is no longer the free country we thought it was
Every year, the US Department of State releases a report on human rights practices in other countries (CRHRP). One of my first assignments as a political officer at the US embassy was to coordinate and edit one country report. Not surprisingly, certain governments sometimes take issue with how their policies are characterised in the CRHRP. For example, South Africa claimed a recent CRHRP was 'inaccurate and deeply flawed' in criticising them for failing to 'investigate, prosecute and punish officials who committed human rights abuses … or violence against racial minorities'. President Cyril Ramaphosa seemed bewildered in May when President Trump took him to task for the murders of white farmers. His government's defence seems to be that South Africa's horrific levels of crime afflict everyone, not just white people, and that the motives are not racist but merely criminal. That is unlikely to mollify a country impoverished under an incompetent succession of ANC leaders, nor will Ramaphosa's explanation that they haven't actually used their sweeping new Land Expropriation Act inspire commercial farmers who feed the country to invest in their farms. But I digress. China doesn't just reject US criticism, they've cheekily published their own report criticising the US for 'the chronic disease of racism,' and 'basic rights and freedoms being disregarded'. Usually, the governments taking the most criticism in the CRHRP are repressive or feckless regimes, from China to Zimbabwe, that suppress free speech, stifle religious expression, or oppress women, minority groups, and political dissidents. That doesn't sound like the England in which I was born over half a century ago. But this year, the Country Report on the UK flags Britain as a risky place to speak your mind. The CRHRP claims that 'the human rights situation worsened in the United Kingdom during the year,' citing 'credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression, including enforcement of or threat of criminal or civil laws in order to limit expression; and crimes, violence, or threats of violence motivated by anti-Semitism'. The report notes restrictions on speech – even silent meditation – near abortion clinics, and the Online Safety Act's curtailment of internet speech, policed by Ofcom. It calls out government censorship of speech deemed misinformation or 'hate speech', including in relation to migrants and crimes committed by foreign nationals. It could have gone even further. In its section on Worker Rights, the CRHRP doesn't discuss the people who have been sacked or disciplined for refusing to accept the forced speech codes of gender ideology, like prison officer David Toshack or nurse Jennifer Melle; or for social media posters who have criticised government action, like teacher Simon Pearson. Like the proverbial frog in slowly heating water, perhaps Brits can't see what is happening to their freedoms. But looking from the outside, we can, and the State Department has called it out. In reaction, I expect the British Left to be as indignant and in denial as the establishment in Washington DC is about crime. Now Donald Trump has temporarily taken over local law enforcement in the city, the Leftist establishment and the national media are claiming that violent crime is lower than in recent years. This ignores some inconvenient realities. First, unreliable numbers. The city has reportedly just settled a lawsuit from a whistleblowing police officer who had alleged that her supervisors were re-classifying serious crimes as lesser offences, to flatter the city's crime statistics. Second, even the supposedly lower murder rate puts Washington among the most dangerous cities in the nation. Like the DC establishment, the British government and much of the media are happy to ignore Lucy Connolly, who is still in prison after she made an unwise online post (and then deleted it); Hamit Coskun, who was prosecuted after he burnt a book; and the thousands of ordinary Brits who have been accused of 'Non-Crime Hate Incidents,' which is at the very least an astonishing waste of police time. The Left likes to pretend that the real villains in the fight for free speech are people like Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, and JK Rowling, who courageously state objective truth, rather than the gender ideologues trying to force women to accept men in their changing rooms, prisons, and shelters. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and other writers of the early 20th century predicted a future where the populace was dumbed down, repressed, and fed information by an authoritarian state. In the dystopian futures they imagined in 1984 and Brave New World, independent, critical thinking was banned and speech violators were punished. That sounds like the logical destiny of Britain if it maintains its present course. There is already a semi-official dogma on gender ideology, immigration, and crime which it is costly to challenge. Censorship and group-think get worse if not disrupted. Instead of rejecting America's criticism in high dudgeon, I hope Britain will heed the warning of its Atlantic cousins and return to the people their right to speak their minds. For the land of Magna Carta to slowly sink into repression and state control would be a great injustice to Britain's present inhabitants, and an insult to our ancestors' work of centuries. 'The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)' from Academica Books.
