A high-ranking Russian general has been killed in Ukraine, according to pro-Kremlin military blogger Yuri Kotenok – who has 420,000 subscribers on the messaging app Telegram.
Kotenok says Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev died in a missile strike.
The news has not yet been confirmed by any official sources and the BBC has so far been unable to verify the claims.
But many of Russia’s military bloggers have front-line experience and have been useful and insightful sources of information about the Ukraine war, in the absence of official comment (as this article explains).
If confirmed, Goryachev would be the first Russian general to be killed in Ukraine this year, according to the independent Russian investigative news service Agentstvo.
Source – BBC News
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