Maj Gen Andrei Sukhovetsky Is The Highest Ranking Russian Fatality In Its War With Ukraine Yet
Russian authorities have confirmed that Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division, was killed in fighting in Ukraine earlier this week.
His death was confirmed by a local officers' organization in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia.?
The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear.
Highest ranking Russian military officer
Sukhovetsky is the highest-ranking Russian military officer to be killed in the war that Moscow launched on Ukraine last week.
The 47-year-old who took part in Russia's military campaign in Syria received two commendations for bravery from the Kremlin.
He was appointed as the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District last year.?
"The fact is, we killed him," Volodymyr Omelyan, Ukraine¡¯s former minister of infrastructure who has is currently part of a voluntary force in Kyiv, told Fox News.
¡°With great pain, we learned the tragic news of the death of our friend, Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, on the territory of Ukraine during the special operation. We express our deepest condolences to his family,¡± Sergey Chipilev, a deputy of the Combat Brotherhood Russian veterans group, wrote on Telegram.
On Thursday, a week after he announced the launch of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladamir Putin had said that a general had been killed.
For the first time on Thursday, Russia had acknowledged that it had suffered military fatalities in the war in Ukraine.
Putin told the Russian public that the country had lost 498 soldiers in the first week of the war.
But according to Ukraine, the number of Russian troops killed in the war is much higher. They said that till Thursday more than 7000 invaders have been killed by Ukraine forces.
The death of a top officer is yet another indication that Putin's war is not going as planned, despite making steady progress on the ground.
Earlier, Ukraine authorities had also eliminated the head of Chechen special forces, a notorious military unit that was sent by Russia allegedly to kill?President Volodymyr Zelensky??
Chechen general Magomed Tushaev the commander of the 141th motorised national guard brigade along with his men were obliterated after their convoy of 56 tanks was blown to smithereens near Hostomel, just northeast of Kyiv, by Ukrainian missile fire on the second day of the Chechens' deployment.
Earlier this week, the Ukrainian government had claimed that the information about the Chechen plot came from agents from?Russia¡¯s Federal Security Service?(FSB) security service who are opposed to the war.
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