Moscow announced, on Sunday, the killing of two military commanders on the front in Ukraine, in a rare announcement by the military leadership since the start of the Ukrainian war about 15 months ago.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a daily press conference that Colonels Vyacheslav Makarov and Yevgeny Brovko fell in action in Ukraine.
He explained that Makarov, commander of the Fourth Motorized Rifle Brigade, with his elements, responded to “two enemy attacks” before he was “seriously wounded and died during his evacuation from the battlefield.”
Brovko, deputy commander of the army corps “responsible for military and political action”, died at the front “after being wounded by shrapnel.”
This announcement by the Russian army is rare and reflects the intensification of fighting in recent days, at a time when Moscow says it has repulsed a Ukrainian attack on a 95-kilometer front in eastern Ukraine.
Fighting is still raging in and around Bakhmut, with battles concentrated in Donbass.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that “the enemy made, during the last day, intensive attempts to penetrate the defense of our forces north and south” of Bakhmut.
“All these attacks were repelled,” the source confirmed in a statement.
The Ministry of Defense also confirmed, on Sunday, that it had “hit” sites in Ternopil (west) and Petropavlevka (center-east) in Ukraine, in which Western weapons delivered to Kiev are stored, in particular.
Konashenkov stated that the Russian army “carried out a strike with long-range, high-precision air and sea weapons on (sites) of the Ukrainian armed forces and on ammunition depots, weapons and military equipment that it received from Western countries,” stressing that “all targets were hit.”
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2023-05-14 13:33:06
