A Russian commander was killed by his own soldiers after his unit suffered heavy losses in Ukraine

A Russian brigade commander was deliberately killed by his own troops after his unit suffered heavy losses in Ukraine.

Colonel Yuri Medvechek, commander of the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade, was run over by his soldiers, said a Western official quoted by Sky News journalist Deborah Haynes. “This gives an idea of the moral problems that Russian forces have,” the official said, according to the British journalist.

“We believe that the brigade commander was killed by his own troops, as a result of the magnitude of the losses suffered by his brigade,” said an official quoted by the prestigious media outlet Politico. “We believe he was deliberately killed by his own troops,” he added.

This is the seventh Russian general killed, revealed BBC journalist Paul Adams.

This Friday, Ukraine reported that its forces killed another high-ranking Russian military officer, one month after the start of the invasion of Moscow.

In a video, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said the troops had killed the commander of the 49th Russian Army of the Southern District, General Yakov Ryazantsev, in an attack in Chornobayivka, near Kherson.

According to the adviser, quoted by the Ukrainian agency Ukrinform, the lieutenant general died at an airport in Chronobayivka, in the Kherson region, the same place where a week ago the Ukrainian army killed Lieutenant-General Andrei Mordvichev.

Residents of Kherson, the first city in Ukraine to fall into the hands of Russian forces following the invasion of Ukraine, told AFP news agency that they had heard heavy fighting from Chornobayivka every night.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared several days ago that Chernobayevka “will go down in the history of the war”.

With information from AFP and EFE

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