Drunk Russian Soldiers Open Fire At FSB Officers, Bloody Shootout Ensues: Report

Drunk Russian soldiers opened fire on members of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson several months ago, sparking a firefight that resulted in the deaths of three men, an investigation revealed.

Igor Yakubinsky, Sergei Privalov and D.A. Borodin, three officers attached to the FSB's Military Task Force No. 9 sub-division, encountered two Russian contract soldiers upon entering the Food Fuel cafe on Ushakova Avenue at around 8 p.m. on June 19, an incident and homicide report obtained by Yahoo News said.

The two soldiers of the 8th Artillery Regiment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Sgt. Sergei Obukhov and Junior Sgt. Igor Sudin, were "idly spending time, consuming alcoholic drinks" at the time, according to the document submitted by the Russian Investigative Committee's Military Investigations Department for the Black Sea Fleet.

Yakubinsky, Privalov and Borodin admonished both soldiers for drinking alcohol while in uniform and carrying weapons, prompting Obukhov to pull out a gun and shoot at the floor, according to the report.

Privalov tried to grab the weapon, the Investigative Committee said. Sudin then allegedly opened fire at the FSB officers with his AK-74 assault rifle, and both Privalov and Yakubinsky returned fire.

Obukhov, Privalov and Yakubinsky "died on the spot," while Borodin and Sudin were hospitalized with wounds of various degrees of severity in the Russian Defence Ministry's Federal Naval Clinical Hospital No. 1427 in Sevastopol, independent fact-checker The Insider reported.

An unnamed fourth FSB officer who was with Yakubinsky, Privalov and Borodin during the incident fled the scene, according to the outlet.

The shootout is now subject to a criminal case under the purview of V.O. Savchenko, an official in the Military Investigations Department.

Reports of Russian soldiers' alcoholism have been rampant in Ukraine as morale continues to suffer due to the invasion of Ukraine dragging on without Russia achieving its primary goal of regime change, according to Yahoo News.

Drunk Russian soldiers allegedly killed a 10-year-old girl in Shybene, a village located near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, during the first week of the conflict.

In another incident, a 16-year-old pregnant teen from Kherson claimed an intoxicated Russian trooper raped her and threatened to kill her if she resisted.