Who was Andrei Sukhovetsky? Ukraine Forces Reportedly Kill Russia General by Sniper
3 min readAs per local media reports claiming a post on social media by a comrade, a prominent Russian military officer, ‘Andrei Sukhovetsky’ has indeed been killed there in the conflict in Ukraine.
Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of such 41st Combined Arms Division of the Central Military District. He was dead on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian news stories.
A statement on VKontakte confirming the death was in a post by Sergei Chipilev. A deputy of the Russian group of veterans Combat Brotherhood was in reports by media sites.
“It will be with great sadness that we learned of the unfortunate tragedy of our comrade. Major General Andrei Aleksandrovich Sukhovetsky. He died on the borders of Ukraine throughout a special operation,” his post wrote, further elaborating.
! Ukrainian armed forces announced that they have killed maj. gen. Andrey Sukhovetskiy, a Spetsnaz commander and deputy chief of the 41 Army in Novosibirsk. This appears confirmed by a spokesperson of the Russian Paratroopers Union. If confirmed, major demotivator for RU.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 3, 2022Advertisement
Ukraine Forces Reportedly Kill Russia General Andrei Sukhovetsky
The fatality was in reports by Christo Grozev. Executive director of evidence website Bellingcat. Added that if reported, this would be a “huge source of stress” for Russian soldiers.
Sukhovetsky was in his current position since October 2021. And his duty was in Novosibirsk, according to Ukrainian news source Fakti. Russian news organizations also broke the news of the death. The story was by Lenta.ru, and Alexander Kots. A journalist for the massive circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, reported the death in a Telegram post.
As per Russia’s state-run news agency. RIA Novosti, 498 Russian soldiers are already. And 1,597 have been facing serious injuries ever since the war began. The number of deaths in Russia, according to Kyiv, is at least a handful times greater.
Moscow also claimed that over 2,870 Ukrainian militaries and “nationalist groups” had already been killed, with an additional 3,700 injured. However, the figures have not yet been independently in conformation.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a forceful video statement on Thursday morning. Says Russia “will pay the additional price for what you did to all of us, to our nation, including every Ukrainian.”
“Each home, each road, each town will be rebuilding again,” he says.
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