![]() 'We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately,' the official said, noting he was 'run over'. He also claimed the commander of Russia's 37th Motor Rifle Brigade had been killed by his own troops, 'as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade'. of the forces being no longer combat effective - that's a pretty remarkable set of statistics,' the Western official said. 'After a month of operations to have somewhere in the region of perhaps a sixth. Officials there believe around 20 of the 115-120 battalion tactical groups deployed by Moscow in Ukraine are 'no longer combat effective' due to the losses sustained. The Kremlin claimed Friday that just over 1,300 military personnel have died in the war, but estimates of four or five times that number are seen as credible in Western capitals. It has been blamed in part on communications and logistics issues, leading senior officers to use unencrypted channels which has exposed them to Ukrainian forces. Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, (left) commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting in the besieged city of Mariupol while Major General Vitaly Gerasimov (right) was killed on March 7 outside the eastern city of Kharkiv Meanwhile, Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was identified as the general sacked earlier this week by the Kremlin. ![]() The sixth Russian commander killed since the invasion began was said to have been Colonel Yuri Medvedev, who was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses. Rezantsev, who bragged on just the fourth day of the war that it would be over in a matter of hours, was apparently killed after the Ukrainian army destroyed the commanding post of the 49th Russian Army in southern Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed. ![]() Reports of the commander's suicide came after Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. Given that these figures are based on visual confirmations from pictures and footage coming out of Ukraine, the true figure is expected to be much higher. Of those, 939 have been destroyed, 35 have been damage, 229 have been abandoned and 688 have been captured by Ukrainian troops. People walks past a tank destroyed in fighting during Ukraine-Russia conflict, in the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine March 23, 2022īut his armies have made little progress in capturing key cities, and have suffered heavy losses at the hands of Ukrainian forces that have fought intelligently against their much larger foe.Īccording to Oryx, a military blog that is tracking Russian vehicle losses based on visual confirmation, as of March 26 the Kremlin has lost 1,891 in total.
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