0:00 / 0:00
Ukrainian Naval Infantry Brawl with Russians in Crimea
1,710 views
On 21 March 2014, Russian Special Operations Forces Command storm the headquarters of the Ukrainian 1st Independent Naval Infantry Battalion in Feodosia. With both sides wanting to avoid a deadly escalation, fist fights break out in the naval infantry's barracks. Listen to The War Office Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or The War Office Podcast YouTube Channel for more in-depth history podcast episodes. New episodes will be released every Tuesday morning. If you enjoy the episodes, please help us grow the podcast by subscribing, liking, sharing, commenting, and listening to future releases.
Comments(0)
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
The combined Russian force gathers in
the parade ground in front of the
barracks and demands the Ukrainians to
surrender, but this is ignored.
The Russians instead break into the
barracks and begin brawling with the
Ukrainian naval infantry. Despite the
standoff, neither side is seeking a
deadly escalation and use non-lethal
means to fight each other instead of
using their firearms.
>> The result was a rolling and epic series
of brawls that lasted a couple of hours
as the Russians worked their way through
the barracks. Eventually, the base was
taken with no more than a lot of bruises
and some broken bones on both sides.
Lieutenant Colonel Delyatitsky himself,
who'd been at the forefront of the
melee, suffered three broken ribs, but
became something of a legend among
Ukrainian and Russian soldiers alike.