'Kill list' of 12 Russian commanders after another of Putin's generals is killed
dailystar.co.ukmajor general has been killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, bringing the number of major generals lost to four. Ukraine's Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko released a picture of Major General Oleg Mityaev after he died trying to storm Mariupol.The commander of Russia's 150th motorised rifle division died alongside elite special operations fighters from the feared Dzerzhinsky Division of the country’s national guard, the Daily Mirror reports.The Kremlin has only confirmed one general's death so far, but it is clear that the Ukrainian army has been successful in its efforts to target Russian military leaders, with 12 top commanders having lost their lives so far.Some of these commanders were said to have come to the frontline, something they would normally do if there were issues over decision-making, or their seniority was needed to get the troops forward.Western sources said that a lot of generals are being killed because they are being pushed closer to the front line than usual to boost Russian soldiers' morale.Listed below are some of the most senior Russian military officials to have died in Ukraine so far.Andrei Sukhovetsky was the first senior figure confirmed to have been killed during fighting in Ukraine.Experts said his death would have come as a bitter blow to the Russian military command and would've been fed back to Putin himself, as he sat only four positions below the Marshal of the Russian Federation, who runs the entire armed forces.Sukhovetsky was the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division and a deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army and is the most senior known casualty when he died at the end of February.A military source said he had been killed by a.
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