Other commander fromrussian army he was killed during the invasion of Ukraine: this is the major general Vladimir FrolovDeputy Commander ofeighth army in the southern district one of the battalions involved in the siege of the port city Mariupol. At least that’s Frolov fifteenth among senior officers of the Moscow Armed Forces who have lost their lives since February 24, the day the conflict began. Announcing the death, on Easter Saturday, was the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, with the announcement that the burial of the soldier took place on the same day in the city at the Serafimovskoe Historical Cemetery. “Today we say goodbye to a true hero,” said Beglov. “Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died from one heroic death in the fight against Ukrainian nationalists. He sacrificed his life so that the children, women and elderly of the Donbass would stop hearing the explosions of the bombs, stop waiting for death and, leaving the house, stop greeting them as if they were it one the last time”. The images released by the Russian media show the tomb covered by white and red flowers and surmounted by a wooden cross with the photo of the general.
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In the ranks of the Russian army the Ukrainian war caused already a month and a half more losses of seven years of military intervention in Syria. According to the Kiev Defense Department, more than 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed, an estimate that doubles to 40,000 (according to the Pentagon) if one also includes wounded and missing. And to beat Western military analysts is precisely the unprecedented number of senior officers who fell: before Frolov, the last was a colonel Alexander Bespalov, commander of the 59th tank regiment, buried on April 8 in the city of Ozersk. A few days earlier, Kyiv had claimed responsibility for the assassination of another colonel near Kharkiv. Denis Kuril, at the head of the Two Hundredth Brigade of Motor Gunners. By midMarch, however, Frolov’s direct superior, the general, had died Andrei MordvichevCommander of the 8th Army of the Southern District: According to the Ukrainian Reconstructionists, he was a victim of an attack at the airport of Chornobaivka, in the Kherson region. The other dead generals are Oleg Mityaev who, among other things, led the Russian troops in the invasion of Donbass in 2014), Andrei Sukhovetsky (47 years old, commanded a special group of airborne troops killed by a sniper during the siege of Mariupol), Vitaliy Gerasimov (44 years old, had taken part in surgeries in Syria and the annexation of Crimea and was killed near Kharkiv) e Andrei Kolesnikov (45 years old, he was commander of the 29th combined army of the Eastern Military District in the Zabaykalsky region).
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