War in Ukraine: Putin’s fourth and fourth general dead – Russia does not confirm

He is dead, according to the Interior Ministry Of Ukrainea general of Vladimir Putin, the fourth to fall dead on the battlefield. This is him Oleg Mitiaevwho was commander of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Army since 2020.

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashenko posted a photo of Mityaev on Telegram saying he had been killed, but Russia has not yet confirmed this.

Mitiaev, according to a Newsweek article, had also fought in Syria and in 2016 took command of a Russian military base in Tajikistan.

Lieutenant General Oleg Mityaev is the fourth Russian general allegedly killed in the war in Ukraineaccording to Kyiv.

The Ukrainian army claimed last Friday that killed another Russian military official on the battlefieldwith the Ukraine to note that this is the general Andrei Kolesnikov, commander of the 29th Russian Army. On March 4 Andrei Sukhovetsky was shot dead by a sniperhead of the 7th Russian Airborne Division, according to the Independent.

Russia has so far only confirmed the death of one general.


Source: News Beast

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