TWO MORE RUSSIAN COMMANDERS ARE KILLED ON THE FRONTLINE IN UKRAINE AFTER A TOP GENERAL WAS SHOT DEAD BY SNIPERS, WESTERN OFFICIAL CLAIMS

TWO MORE RUSSIAN COMMANDERS ARE KILLED ON THE FRONTLINE IN UKRAINE AFTER A TOP GENERAL WAS SHOT DEAD BY SNIPERS, WESTERN OFFICIAL CLAIMS

Two more Russian commanders have been killed on the frontline in Ukraine after a top general was shot dead by snipers, a Western official has claimed. 

Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, 47, was reportedly killed by a Ukrainian sniper while the latest deaths since Russia invaded last week, were also both senior officers. 

One was a divisional commander and the other was a regimental commander, the Telegraph has reported. 

The Western official believes this is down to the commanders having to get ‘closer to the front’ as Russia feels progress still has not been made in Ukraine. 

‘The reason why that’s happening is that commanders feel they have to move further forward to get greater impetus and control over operations,’ the official said. 

‘That’s an indication perhaps of some degree of frustration, some degree of lack of progress and they’re trying to impose their personality onto the battlefield and then putting themselves at personal risk.’

Mr. Sukhovetsky, who was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of Russia’s Central Military District, died on Wednesday as Ukrainian defence forces repelled the Russian offensive. 

His death, announced on social media by his colleague Sergey Chipilyov, was widely reported by several Russian and Ukrainian news outlets and a military source confirmed that he was killed ‘by a sniper’.  

After days of denial, the Kremlin on Wednesday admitted that 498 of its troops have been killed and 1,600 injured in the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, but the true figure is said to be higher than that.

Kyiv says Russia has now lost around 9,200 men in the fighting, along with hundreds of tanks, almost a thousand armored vehicles, and dozens of helicopters and jets. 

Early morning on Friday, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky raised an alarm, calling on world leaders to intervene after Russian troops attacked a nuclear power plant which could trigger a disaster that could wipe out the whole of Europe

It was reported that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has six nuclear energy reactors and is regarded as the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, came under heavy bombardment by Russian troops early morning on Friday. The attack eventually led to a fire outbreak at a training building at the power plant at about 2:30 a.m

Ukrainian firefighters were initially prevented from gaining access to put out the fire by Russian troops. However, it was later reported that the fire has been put out and fighting has also stopped in the area

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