Yahoo News reported this yesterday but I didn’t see it until today. This happened in Kherson City, which is a Russian occupied portion of southern Ukraine. According to documentations seen by Yahoo News, three FSB officers (agents?) walked into a bar and immediately noticed a couple of Russian soldiers getting drunk in uniform. They apparently told them to knock it off but the Russian soldiers didn’t take it well.

According to the Investigative Committee’s report, at about 8 p.m. on June 19, Igor Yakubinsky, Sergei Privalov and D.A. Borodin, three officers attached to the sub-division Military Task Force No. 9 of the FSB entered the Food Fuel cafe on Ushakova Avenue when they discovered two contract soldiers, Sgt. Sergei Obukhov and Junior Sgt. Igor Sudin “idly spending time, consuming alcoholic drinks,” according to the Investigative Committee documents.

The FSB officers remonstrated with the enlisted men for drinking while in uniform. Obukhov responded by removing his sidearm and firing rounds into the floor, the report stated. Privalov tried to grab the gun, whereupon Sudin started spraying the security servicemen with rounds from his AK-74 assault rifle, as Privalov and Yakubinsky returned fire.

Obukhov, Privalov and Yakubinsky “died on the spot,” according to the documents, while Borodin and Sudin were “hospitalized with injuries of varying degrees of severity at Federal Naval Clinical Hospital No. 1427 of the Russian Defense Ministry, located in Sevastopol,” in occupied Crimea. A fourth FSB officer, unidentified in the documents, fled the site…

The shootout, which is now subject to a criminal case under the purview of V.O. Savchenko, an official in the Military Investigations Department, is the latest example of problems involving military discipline among Russian soldiers in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

It was a bit hard for me to keep the names straight but basically one of the soldiers (Obukhov) and two of the FSB guys (Privalov and Yakubinsky) died in the bar. The other soldier and the 3rd FSB guy ended up in the hospital.

This is not the first time there have been reports suggesting the Russian soldiers in Kherson are out of control and frequently drunk. Earlier this month Sky News was able to make contact with a journalist living in the city who described what life there is like.

He said that in the suburbs, Russian soldiers walk through the streets drunk, “a bottle of alcohol in one hand, a machine gun in the other”.

“There is a checkpoint at almost every intersection,” he continued. “All cars and buses are checked. Everyone is asked for their passports. They tear down garage doors and gates. They are looking for weapons, they are looking for some equipment. They are very afraid of partisans.”

It has been widely reported that the families of Russian soldiers who moved to Kherson in the days after it was captured have now left, fearing a counteroffensive. And we have been told by Ukrainian military sources that Russian commanders in Kherson city have withdrawn to the other side of the river.

Dmytro said: “To be honest, if maybe two generals or five colonels left Kherson, it’s not very noticeable. But the ordinary soldiers, the Russian occupiers, have begun to behave very insolently.

“It’s clear that they have absolutely no discipline. This indirectly confirms that the top officers must have escaped. But no one saw it, because it is impossible to see. How they got to the other side [of the Dnipro river] must have been some kind of secret operation.”

The claims that Russian commanders have already fled rings true. The Russian puppet deputy governor of Kherson has also fled to Moscow.

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"Kherson will never again be under the control of the Nazis", the Russian puppet "deputy governor for Kherson" Kirill Stremousov claimed this morning.

He is so certain of a Russian victory, he precautionarily recorded his message in Voronezh's Marriott hotel, Russia. pic.twitter.com/q2PsZJcYbU

— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) August 30, 2022

Maybe those FSB officers thought they were going to instill some discipline in those wayward soldiers but it didn’t work out too well. In any case, soldiers who are getting drunk day and night don’t sound like much of a fighting force. This might help explain why they haven’t made any progress for months.