Russia verified that it lost a leading officer from the Russian armed forces intelligence agency or GRU, a rival agency to the KGB. Alexey Glushchak, a captain with Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU), died amidst the carnage in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol recently, claimed Russian authorities in a statement.
“Due to the strict secrecy of the military operation, the circumstances of the death of the Tyumen hero are not disclosed,” Russian officials claimed in a statement. Glushchak’s cause of death was not defined.
Several local Russian media outlets published photos of his funeral online. According to The Mirror, “On the day the military intelligence officer died he had spoken to both his wife and mother in Russia, the statement explained. He called to congratulate them on International Women’s Day, but that evening they learned he had been killed.”
Ukrainian officials recently alleged that their forces also killed a leading Russian General, Vitaly Gerasimov, in battling around Kharkiv.
Ukraine’s military claimed that Gerasimov is a “Russian military commander, major general, chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Army of the Central Military District of Russia” and also added that he was a veteran in Russian projects in Syria and Chechnya.
In a call with reporters concerning a week ago, a senior U.S. Army source, who asked for anonymity, claimed that “we cannot confirm that the general has been killed,” describing Gerasimov. The Department of Defense has not connected to Russia’s Ministry of Defense, the authorities stated.
Russian state media reported last week that Andrei Sukhovetsky, replacement leader of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, was lost in combat recently.
The fatality comes as reports of Airstrikes arose in cities and communities throughout the nation overnight, from near the Russian boundary in the east to the Carpathian Mountains in the west, as battling advanced to the outskirts of Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities said Russian forces shelled several residential areas of the Ukrainian capital, a significant political and critical target for their invasion.
Airstrikes were reported across the nation, including the southerly city of Mykolaiv, as well as the northern city of Chernihiv, where heat was knocked out to a lot of the community. Explosions additionally sounded out overnight around the Russian-occupied Black Sea port of Kherson.
The Russian military claimed 20 civilians in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine were killed by a ballistic missile launched by Ukrainian forces. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov claimed more than 28 people were wounded by the Soviet-made Tochka-U missile, which carried a shrapnel warhead.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
H/T The Epoch Times
