Devastation of a direct strike on 12 Ukrainian Soldiers

Ukrainian forces confused a Russian tank for one of their own. It also looks like the Russian tank confused the people taking selfies as being Russian rather than Ukrainian. Hence why the shot was at point blank range.

What was the alternative?? No way they could have been taken prisoner. They also might have had a Javalin anti-tank munition.

Just before they were arguing about the tank. "It looks to me like a Russian tank, because of the white markings, which are not typical on Ukrainian T 72s. But that’s what I think — what do you all think." The cell phone of the dead man was picked up to get this part of the video. I don't know who was filming from a distance, and then ran?

One commenter on another platform said "tanks have sensors that detect the aiming of bazookas. modern cell phone cameras also trigger these sensors because they use infrared to measure the distance to objects in order to optimally focus the image. perhaps the tank fired automatically because one of the soldiers was filming with the cell phone. Just a theory on the possible causes.”