Another Russian General Killed By Ukrainian Defenders As Putin Flails

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Another Russian general has apparently been killed amid fighting in Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces recently invaded and have been inflicting devastation ever since. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych identified the new fatality as commander of the 49th Russian Southern District Army, General Yakov Ryazantsev, according to AFP. (He’s also been described as a lieutenant general.) According to Arestovych, the hit that took out Ryazantsev took place around Chornobayivka, which is in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian city of Kherson temporarily fell under the control of Russian forces, but the Ukrainian defense has launched numerous apparently successful counter-attacks on the invaders. At this point, the current Ukraine war has been going on for more than a month.

The Ukrainian news outlet The Kyiv Independent also reported Ryazantsev’s death, explaining: “Another Russian general killed in Ukraine. Yakov Ryezantsev was killed in Chornobaivka, a site of intense fighting just north of Kherson, according to Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to the head of Ukraine’s presidential office.” Notably, another Russian military leader — Lieutenant-General Andrei Mordvichev, who’d been commander of the 8th General Army of the Southern Military District of Russia’s Armed Forces — was recently killed by Ukrainian defenders in the same area that Ryazantsev died. As Arestovych explained, “The airfield in Chornobayivka (Kherson region), which the Russians use as their command post and the place of collection of aircraft, again pleased us with the result. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again struck and, according to preliminary data, destroyed the forward command post of the 8th army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. This is exactly the direction that was responsible for ORDLO… According to preliminary data, the commander of this army died.”

Russia has lost multiple generals in fighting in Ukraine, including one that was apparently taken out after Ukrainians intercepted communications revealing his position. As explained by The New York Times, “Two American military officials said that many Russian generals are talking on unsecured phones and radios. In at least one instance, they said, the Ukrainians intercepted a general’s call, geolocated it, and attacked his location, killing him and his staff.” Other high-profile losses for Russian invaders include at least 15 military commanders and a warship called the Orsk that was recently taken out by Ukrainian defenders near Berdyansk. The U.S. Defense Department recently concluded Russia’s invading forces had for the first time fallen beneath 90 percent of their original “combat power.”

Tactical victories for Ukraine’s side haven’t stopped the travesties suffered by Ukraine’s population, however — it’s now come out that some 300 people are believed to have died in a Russian strike on a theater that had been used in the besieged city of Mariupol as a shelter. The Russian word for children had been written in large letters on the ground outside the theater in an attempt to keep it from getting struck. Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko stated this past Tuesday that “Kherson’s 300k citizens face a humanitarian catastrophe owing to the Russian army’s blockade. Food and medical supplies have almost run out, yet Russia refuses to open humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians.” And in Mariupol, deaths from starvation and fatalities associated with lack of necessary medicines have been recorded. Overall, thousands in Mariupol have lost their lives — and there have been reports of thousands of Mariupol residents getting forcibly relocated by Russian invaders to Russian territory.



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