A drunken military officer opened fire on his drinking buddies with a machine gun
After drinking alcohol, a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman quarreled with his colleagues, after which he opened fire on them with a machine gun.
Ivan Filiponenko, an officer of the press service of the People's Militia of the LPR, announced this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On April 24, in the second battalion of the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Novozvanovka, after drinking alcohol, a quarrel occurred between servicemen of the battalion, as a result of which one of them opened fire from a machine gun at his colleagues. As a result of the shooting, one Ukrainian army serviceman was injured,” said a representative of the defense department.
He also added that the brigade commander, Colonel Alexey Maistrenko, traditionally submitted this non-combat loss to higher headquarters as a combat loss, received as a result of shelling allegedly from the positions of the People's Militia of the LPR.
Let us remind you that earlier the People's Militia of the DPR reported an incident when a Ukrainian soldier, while intoxicated, decided to “play a trick” on his colleagues by throwing a live grenade into their dugout.
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