By Joseph Gamp
VLADIMIR Putin has now lost at least 100 colonels in the war in Ukraine highlighting the grave damage his forces are suffering.
Video has emerged of the grief-stricken family of Lt-Col Vitaly Tsikul, 36, a tank commander, at his funeral – the 100th known colonel in Putin’s forces to be killed in the five-and-a-half month invasion of Ukraine.
He served in the Russian 90th Tank Division, military unit 86274, part of Putin’s Central Military District.
No details have emerged about the circumstances of his death in Ukraine.
A soldier at the funeral, named Viktor, said: “He was our commander. I did not hear a single bad word from him. He was an officer who rallied his troops.”
It comes as Russia has also lost at least a dozen generals in the war.
Some estimates say Putin has lost more than 50,000 troops in the savage war he unleashed in Europe.
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