By Ethan Singh
Major General Vladimir Frolov was buried in St Petersburg[/caption]
Colonel Miras Bashakov died in fighting[/caption]
Lt-Gen Andrey Mordvichev was killed at Chornobaivka, near Kherson[/caption]
Another Russian general who was killed in battle was Major General Andrei Kolesnikov[/caption]
They have also seen 163 planes and 144 helicopters blasted out of the sky above war-ravaged Ukraine.
Russia’s latest military humiliation comes as the Kremlin redeploys forces eastward after a
VLADIMIR Putin has lost his 35th colonel as Russia’s troop death toll hit a massive 21,000.
The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine has come at a price as another member of Putin’s top brass fell to valiant Ukrainians.
Col. Mikhail Nagamov, 41, was confirmed dead by Russian officials[/caption]
The colonel is the latest member of Putin’s top brass to be killed[/caption]
Col. Mikhail Nagamov, 41, commander of a sapper regiment of the Western Military District, died in Ukraine on April 13.
Nagamov died “while performing a combat mission in Ukraine”.
His death was reported by the administration of his hometown village Suslonger and he will be buried tomorrow at the federal military memorial cemetery in Mytishchi, Moscow region.
The huge top brass toll now amounts to at least eight generals and 35 colonels amid a haemorrhaging of Putin’s battlefield top brass.
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The scale of the high ranking death toll defies Putin’s claim that his “special military operation” is going according to plan.
The overall Russian losses since the war began on 24 February are believed to be 20,000-plus but Moscow has failed to give accurate figures.
Russia has already lost eight generals in its unwinnable war in Ukraine, which is said to have cost the lives of 20,000 troops.
Four days ago it was revealed that Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of Russia’s 8th Combined Arms Army, was killed in the invasion.
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Major Frovolov was laid to rest with full military honours in St Petersburg.
The exact details of how and where he died were not disclosed.
Last week, Ukraine’s military claims it killed Colonel Ivan Grishin, the commander of Russia’s 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.
The Colonel was said to have been killed in the Russian border town of Smolensk on Saturday in what is being dubbed the “Ukrainian Safari 2.0”, according to certain social media channels.
Russian troop deaths have hit the 21,000 mark[/caption]
It follows the sinking last week of the Moskva, Russia’s flagship missile cruiser[/caption]
It comes as live footage has emerged of Russia’s flagship Moskva sinking in flames after it was hit by Ukrainian missiles in the Black Sea.
Smoke can be seen billowing out of the prized warship as it was towed away by a tug boat.
Parents of surviving sailors say they have found out some 200 were wounded – many with horrific burns and other major injuries.
He “sacrificed his life so that children, women and the elderly in Donbas would not hear bombs exploding again”, said the governor of St Petersburg Alexander Beglov a close Putin ally.
The general was from a military family and “died the death of the brave in battle against Ukrainian nationalists”, said Beglov at his funeral.
He was “a true patriot, a brave and courageous man” who “honestly and to the end fulfilled his military and human duty.
“People will not forget their heroes. Eternal memory to him.”
Russia also lost another colonel, Miras Bashakov, a tank battalion commander recently.
The overall Russian losses since the war began on February 24 are believed to be in the region of 20,000 but Moscow has failed to give accurate figures.
Last month Putin lost another general, Lieutenant-General Andrei Mordvichev, commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army, who was killed in battle at Chornobaivka, near the southern city of Kherson.
It follows the death of Major General Andrei Kolesnikov of the 29th Combined Arms Army and Vitaly Gerasimov, who was killed in fighting outside Kharkiv.
Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky was reportedly shot dead by a sniper at the battle for Hostomel Airfield about 30 miles outside the capital Kyiv in early March.
And General Magomed Tushaev died when his Chechen special forces column, including 56 tanks, was obliterated near Hostomel, north-east of the city.
Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, died in Mariupol as well as Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev who also died in the fighting.
Meanwhile, the latest estimates suggest Putin’s savages have now lost an eyewatering 756 battle tanks since the war began.
Major General Vladimir Frolov was buried in St Petersburg[/caption]
Colonel Miras Bashakov died in fighting[/caption]
Lt-Gen Andrey Mordvichev was killed at Chornobaivka, near Kherson[/caption]
Another Russian general who was killed in battle was Major General Andrei Kolesnikov[/caption]
They have also seen 163 planes and 144 helicopters blasted out of the sky above war-ravaged Ukraine.
Russia’s latest military humiliation comes as the Kremlin redeploys forces eastward after a disaster campaign to take Kyiv.
Fighting in the capital continued yesterday as Russia’s military command warned of renewed missile strikes while a missile strike hit Lviv in western Ukraine on Easter Monday, killing five.
In the Kyiv region, authorities have reported finding the bodies of more than 900 civilians, most shot dead, since Russian troops retreated two weeks ago.
Smoke rose from the capital again early Saturday as Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a strike that killed one person and wounded several.
The mayor advised residents who fled the city earlier in the war not to return.
It was the second strike in the Kyiv area since the Russian military vowed this week to step up missile strikes on the capital.
The Ukrainian president’s office reported missile strikes and shelling over the past 24 hours in eight regions across the country.
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On Saturday an explosion near an outdoor market in Kharkiv, believed to be caused by a missile has left one person dead and at least 18 wounded, according to rescue workers.
In southeastern Ukraine, the pummelled southern port city of Mariupol is holding out, but the situation is critical, the Ukrainian president’s office said.
RUSSIA’S SLAIN COMMANDERS
Putin’s top brass killed since the invasion of Ukraine:
- Major Dmitry Toptun
- Major Alexey Osokin
- Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev
- Major General Vitaly Gerasimov
- Major General Andrei Kolesnikov
- Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky
- Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko
- Colonel Sergei Porokhyna
- Colonel Sergei Sukharev
- Colonel Andrei Zakharov
- Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky
- Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov
- Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov
- Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov
- Major Viktor Maksimchuk
- General Magomed Tushaev
- Colonel Alexei Sharov
- Colonel Yuri Medvedev
- Colonel Denis Kurilo
- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kornik
- Major General Vladimir Frolov
- Tank battalion commander Miras Bashakov
- Major-General Oleg Mityaev
- Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev
- Colonel Ivan Grishin
- Colonel Mikhail Nagamov
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a Ukrainian strike last month[/caption]
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