US-Russia Syria collision, Video shows US and Russian military vehicles

 US-Russia Syria collision, Video shows US and Russian military vehicles.

New video appears to capture a collision between U.S. and Russian military vehicles that left several U.S. service members injured in an apparent escalation of the undeclared road war between the two countries playing out in northeastern Syria. 

The video, which is shot from the perspective of the Russian military, appears to show U.S. military Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) vehicles blocking a road near Dayrick in northeastern Syria on Tuesday as a Russian convoy attempts to pass through the area on patrol.

Roughly halfway through the short video, one of the Russian Typhoon-K MRAPs appears to collide with the front of a U.S. M-ATV prompting the American operators to lean on the horn in protest.

National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot confirmed the details of the incident in a statement to Task & Purpose, noting that the collision "caus[ed] injuries to the vehicle’s crew."

Politico reports that four troops were diagnosed with "mild concussion-like symptoms."

"Unsafe and unprofessional actions like this represent a breach of deconfliction protocols, committed to by the United States and Russia in December 2019," Ullyot said. "The Coalition and the United States do not seek escalation with any national military forces, but U.S. forces always retain the inherent right and obligation to defend themselves from hostile acts."