Two other Russian colonels have been killed in Ukraine – including “the best paratrooper commander” in the country, striking a new blow in Vladimir Putin’s war.
The 34-year-old lieutenant colonel Alexander Dosyagaev was the commander of the assault battalion of the 104th parachute regiment.
Soldiers from his 104th Air Assault Regiment were reportedly in Bucha, which was the scene of alleged atrocities of rape and torture by Vladimir Putin’s forces earlier in the war.
His Pskov-based battalion was recognized as the best in Russia in its extensive combat training and military discipline and was named the winner in the Winged Infantry category at the 2021 Russian Army Military Festival.
“I was proud that my soldiers and officers showed the result they were striving for,” Dosyagaev said.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces gave little recognition to Dosyagaev’s achievements in a statement on his death, writing: “This did not help him in meeting with Ukrainian soldiers.”
Russia’s Mediazone media has confirmed the death of another colonel killed earlier in the undeclared war.
The 41-year-old Colonel Vladimir Ivanov was declared a “propagandist” by the Ukrainian media because he served in the information and mass communications department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is now established that he died in March in battles in Ukraine.
A friend of Ivanov wore his portrait on a march of the “Immortal Regiment”
(Ukrainian Department of Strategic Communications)
A friend of Ivanov carried his portrait at a march of the Immortal Regiment on May 9 in memory of Russians killed in numerous conflicts.
It is now estimated that more than 40 Russian colonels were killed in the war, along with 10 generals, in what represents Russia’s biggest losses since World War II. In addition, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, more than 30,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the invasion began on February 24.
The news comes amid growing concerns about Mr Putin’s health with recent reports that doctors have given the Kremlin leader only three years to live.
An increasing number of unconfirmed reports claim that the 69-year-old president has cancer and that his health is rapidly deteriorating.
And now an FSB officer has said that Putin “has no more than two to three years to stay alive,” adding that the Russian president has “a severe form of rapidly progressing cancer.”
Reports allegedly ranging from an unidentified Russian spy to FSB deserter Boris Karpichkov also say Putin is losing his sight and suffering from a headache.
“We were told he was suffering from a headache and when he appeared on television, he needed leaflets with everything written in capital letters to read what he was going to say,” the Russian officer told the Sunday Mirror.
“They are so big that each page can only contain a few sentences. His eyesight is deteriorating. “
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