According to a Western official, Russian Colonel Yuri Medvechek, head of the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade, was hit by his soldiers with a tank: “It gives an idea of the morale of Putin’s army.”
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A Russian brigade commander was deliberately killed by his own men after the unit he commanded suffered heavy casualties in Ukraine. This is reported by a western official, according to the colonel Yuri Medvechek, At the head of the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade, his soldiers hit him with a tank. The fact, reported the source reported by various international media, “gives an idea of the morale of Russians, which is falling more and more”.
Videos and photos of the officer’s seriously injured body have surfaced on social media legs and transferred to a hospital Belarus, where he would have been pronounced dead, as reported by the British newspaper The Guardian and also Sky News. The episode currently has no confirmation outside of Kyiv sources, but it would be the seventh Russian general to be killed in Ukraine. The first was the general Andrei Sukhovestsky March 3, whose death is attributed to a sniper. Then, on March 7th, it was the general’s turn Vitaly Gerasimov11 ad Andrei Kolesnikovat 16 Oleg Mitayev. Last in order of date, March 20, General Andreai Mordvichev according to the local press.
According to NATO figures, between 7,000 and 15,000 Russians have fallen since the beginning of the war, while to date Sergey RudskoyFirst Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, confirmed the number of 1,351 soldiers who died in the first month of the war and said: “The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue the planned implementation of the military operation until the tasks set by the Supreme CommanderinChief are not fulfilled”.