The Ukrainian military eliminated the Colonel Sergei Sukharev , commander of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment (based at Kostroma, russia) of the 98th Airborne Division of the Russian Army. This was announced by an Officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and military blogger Anatoliy Stefan.
“Commander of the Kostroma based Airborne Regiment, Colonel Sergei Sukharev…got lost in the ‘[military] exercises’, but returned home the right way,” - wrote Anatoliy Stefan on his Facebook. It is also noted that on March 17, Sukharev’s deputy, Major Sergei Krylov, has been killed as well.
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It is known that Sukharev's regiment had fought against Ukraine outside the city Ilovaisk in Donbas back in 2014 and took part in both Chechen wars and the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, noted Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security.
The death of Colonel Sergei Sukharev was confirmed by russia’s state TV in Moscow. However, the circumstances of his death were not disclosed by the Russian media. It's indicates, that Kremlin neglets its military personnel in a “military operation”, supposedly fought to protect Russia from Ukraine.
It should be noted that Sukharev is already one of the many high-ranking officers of the russian army who were liquidated by the defenders of Ukraine.
As Defence Express reported earlier, since the beginning of the war on February 24th Ukrainian troops have eliminated at least 9 generals, and other senior officers and unit commanders of the armed forces of Russia.
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