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Huh, when I heard about this incident, I recalled the battle of Grozny in the 1st Chechen War... see, it seems like Russians have a really bad time with railroad stations, for w/e reason.

In the 1st Battle of Grozny, over 100 Russian tanks and 1000+ Russian infantry were lured into a trap at the central railway station. They had sent a forward recon group, which was ambushed and destroyed after taking the station. The Chechens were "jamming" their radio calls for assistance, so when the reinforcement Motor Brigade arrived, they had no idea they were walking into an ambushed group. As the reinforcements closed in on the station, the Russian comms officer heard one distinguishable message over the radio, saying "Welcome to hell". Moments later, the Chechens lying in ambush opened fire.

They used rockets to disable the tanks at the front and rear of the column, trapping the remaining tanks. Over the next day, all but ~100 of the Motor Brigade were killed, maimed, or captured.

I can't recall off the top of my head, but I seem to remember something like this happening to the Russians several times during WW2; maybe I'm thinking of someone else though.

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Ukranians and Russians have captured each others weapons and are using them against the enemy, there's videos of Russians using javelins they captured from Ukrainians, so I'm guessing Russians are using captured or abandoned launcher systems against civilians areas too. It'd be perfect propaganda for the bolsheviks

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So it's a Russian-made weapon that was supposedly purchased by Ukraine? Where exactly did the records of that purchase come from? If those records were recently released by Russia then it's suspect. If they're from a prior date, I'd give them more credence.