Yuri Madvedev: Russian troops drive tank over own commander amid anger at high casualties

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Colonel Yuri Medvedev is said to have suffered severe leg injuries in the attack.
Almost half the troops in his brigade of 1,500 either died, or were wounded, in a series of clashes in the early weeks of the war.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov appears to show the colonel being medically evacuated.
He was airlifted to Belarus for emergency treatment and awarded a Russian military honour.
The incident came amid western and Ukrainian claims that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian service personnel were killed in action in the first month of the Ukraine war.
It comes amid western claims, refuted by the Kremlin, that between