Two General According to reports from the Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Russians are said to have been killed near Kherson. A third would be in critical condition. According to international sources, the number of high-ranking Russian army officers who have died on the battlefield since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine rises to at least 18. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv recalled, the Ukrainian army opened the 49th Russian command post attacked near the southern city of Kherson.
The Defense Post
On the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Ministry explained how it came to the attack and killing of the two generals: “On April 22, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a demolition strike at the checkpoint of the 49 and common sense was placed near the shopping center in the Kherson region. ” In a clash the two Russian generals would have been killed. Their names are still unknown. “By the impact, two occupying generals were eliminated, one was seriously injured and evacuated in critical condition.” The article ends with a message to the Ukrainian population: “Military intelligence continues to search for important targets in order to inflict maximum damage on the occupiers of our Ukrainian land! Glory to Ukraine!”
All generals killed
To date, 16 generals, commanders and other positions such as Russian colonels and captains had lost their lives. Last in chronological order had been General Yakov Resanzew, 48, Commander of the 49th Army, Southern Military District. Just five days earlier, it was the turn of Andrei Mordvichev, commander of the 8th Army of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, fifth general to die at the hands of the Ukrainian killed by artillery shells in the town of Chernobayevka, near Kherson. The name of Mordvichev was added to that of four other longtime generals: Vitaly Gerasimov, Andrei Kolesnikov, Oleg Mityaev and Andrei Sukhovetsky, all veterans of the wars the Russian Federation has waged against Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Donbass over the past thirty years .
Because Russia lost so many
According to some sources, the Kremlin He would be very irritated by the loss of some of his top generals: some experts have stated that there could be several reasons for the fall of the Russian senior officers: Electronic communications equipment would be very unreliable and would therefore force the generals to speak in first person to move . Subordinates would then be “too afraid” of making quick decisions. However, the reasons are not only internal: as we saw on InsideOver, Ukrainians can count on excellent ones snipers able to target key figures when a Russian chain of command is disrupted. Analysts believe Russian commanders are suffering a higher casualty rate than in any conflict since World War II.