Ukraine kills Russia’s sixth general at the same location as the fifth

KHERSON, KOMPAS.com – Ukraine on Friday (25/3/2022) claimed to have killed the sixth general of Russia, at the same location as the death of the fifth general.

In a statement on video, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Ukrainian forces had killed senior Russian military officials in fighting in the south of the country, near Kherson.

Ukrainian troops “killed the commander of the 49th Russian Southern District Army, General Yakov Ryazantsev, in an attack on Chornobayivka near Kherson,” he said. AFP.

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Several residents of Kherson — the first Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces after they invaded Ukraine — recently told AFPthey heard fierce fighting from Chernobayevka every night.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a few days ago said that Chernobayevka would enter the history of war.

Arestovych said last week that a fifth Russian general also died at the Chornobayivka airfield near Kherson, namely the commander of the Russian Eighth Army, General Andrei Mordvichev.

The Ukrainian presidency claims Andrei Mordvichev is the fifth general to be killed since Russian invasion starting on February 24th.

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