Russian soldier says they're suffering more losses 'from their own side' than from Ukrainians, including being fired on by their own tanks

• Multiple reports say that Russian soldiers are being killed by their own military.

• A Russian soldier said 20 men died after a Russian tank fired on them.

• The soldier said there were more losses from his own than from Ukrainians.

According to an intercept phone call released by Ukrainian intelligence on Tuesday, Russian soldiers are suffering more losses from their own side than Ukrainian soldiers.

After 20 men died in an accident on the front, the military had to send reinforcements, according to an audio clip.

According to The Daily Beast, Aleksei told his mother that his tank hit hard. He said there were more losses from our guys than from the Ukrainians.

It is not clear where he was. The audio has not been verified by a third party.

There have been more reports of friendly fire in recent months.

The report by the independent Russian outlet iStories was published on Tuesday.

Experts told iStories that the rate of Russians killing each other had gone up recently. Alexander Kovalenko said that such incidents are being reported daily.

Russian soldiers have been accidentally killed by drunks and clumsy use of weapons in the last few months, according to an outlet.

Roman Moiseev was accidentally shot by his colleague after he tried to take off his loaded machine gun.

The colleague who mishandled his weapon was sentenced to two years of supervised release.

Russians killing Russians are not always accidental, according to some.

The fractured nature of Russia's military operations in Ukraine, with the involvement of mercenaries as well as regular army troops, is leading to hostilities between forces.

A soldier told the outlet that a Russian tank commander blew up their checkpoint because he wanted to kill them.

It is not known how many Russians have died in the conflict.

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