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Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t known to take public humiliation very well.

When things don’t go his way, people tend to fall out of windows and come down with mysterious and often fatal ailments.

Most recently, Ukraine’s successful fightback against Russian troops has backed Putin into a corner and he might be edging ever closer to pushing the dreaded big red button.

Nuclear war is not something to look forward to.

In response to Ukraine’s military gains, Russia has responded by indiscriminately targeting Ukrainian civilians in major cities like Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhzhia.

Perhaps military generals will do their best to shield Putin from seeing the latest embarrassing video doing the rounds. If he does see the footage he won’t be happy, reports The Telegraph:

The driver of a Russian armoured vehicle cluelessly ploughed into a row of clearly visible landmines and promptly blew himself up, in a new video from Ukraine that revealed the incompetence of Moscow’s army.

In the short video clip posted online, the MT-LB vehicle is seen driving over a number of TM-62 anti-tank mines in Ukraine. Bafflingly, the mines in front of the vehicle are in plain sight of both the viewer and presumably the driver of the vehicle.

Perhaps, like roughly 43% of Cape Town drivers, he was on his phone and didn’t notice what lay ahead.

Things didn’t end well:

Rather than viewing this as an isolated incident, military experts say it’s yet more evidence of poor training and morale among Russian troops:

Some troops called-up in Putin’s mobilisation drive have already been captured in Ukraine, saying they received only a few days training before they were deployed or even none at all.

Meanwhile, video footage from the Russian frontline has shown soldiers complaining about useless, rusted rifles, mass outbreaks of Covid-19 and dire shortages of basic supplies.

Following the continued violence against civilians, European lawmakers voted yesterday in favour of declaring Russia a “terrorist” regime.

That is set to worsen after Russia announced it will evacuate residents from Kherson, increasing the likelihood that it will become the new battle frontline.

Mykolaiv, which is around 100 kilometres north-west of Kherson city, was pummelled yesterday by Russian missiles with reports of multiple civilian casualties.

[source:telegraph]