Milchronicles blog has a very detailed account of Ukrainian mine fratricide recently although this doesn't include the reports of them blowing themselves up upon their own mines in Ugledar. Can't vouch for the casualty claims but I suspect intercepted communications.
Armed Forces lost 150 people in Artyomovsk due to NATO mines: details
Retreating from the Red Mountain in early February, units of the 30th mechanized brigade, The 46th airmobile brigade and the 109th battalion of the 10th mining and assault brigade lost at least 150 people killed due to the undermining of equipment on German mines MFOM AT2. According to the Military Chronicle, the installation of these mines in November — December 2022 in case of a breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces to Artyomovsk ( Bahmut ) was carried out by a special unit consisting of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces.
After mining the area, servicemen of the 58th brigade of the Armed Forces were displaced to Zaporozhye, but did not leave detailed maps of minefields for formations of the Ukrainian army defending the area of Soledar and Krasnaya Gora. After the retreat of the Ukrainian motorized rifle units from the Red Mountain through the fields on German mines, not only the T-64BV and T-72B tanks, but also the American armored personnel carriers M113 and the Soviet BMP-2 began to be undermined.
Due to the collision with the MFOM AT2 mines during the regrouping and departure of the aircraft from February 1 to 9, a total of at least 12 vehicles of various types were blown up, most of which were sanitary armored personnel carriers, loaded by wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
After the start of mass bombings on German mines, the tanks of the 17th separate tank brigade of the Armed Forces were to be carried out, however, not a single serviceable machine was found for this task.
American armored personnel carriers and protected mine clearance vehicles were not used: their design does not allow equipping the equipment with mine trawls and other means of physical destruction of the charge.
A similar mistake was made by Ukrainian ground forces in the summer of 2022. Then the units of the Armed Forces mined the fields in the area of the villages of Sukhoi Stavok, Belogorka, Andreevka and Lozovoi. After the onset of the offensive, tanks, armored personnel carriers and mine-protected vehicles of the Armed Forces began to be blown up by mines, which led to the loss of about 350 people killed and about 500 wounded.
Extra unrelated addendum to save on posts.
Kornet ATGMs being used again Ukrainian strong points in Bakhmut.
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