The killing of Zoga, commander of the Spartan independent reconnaissance battalion, over the weekend was another major blow to Putin’s plan to attack Ukraine.Photo: flipping twitter
Russia invested a large number of troops to invade Ukraine, but the offensive was stagnant. Not only did the plan to invade Ukraine hampered, even many high-ranking generals were killed in the war of aggression; the commander of the Russian Spartan independent reconnaissance battalion, Zoga ( Vladimir Zhoga’s unfortunate death in Ukraine last weekend was another major blow to Putin’s plan to attack Ukraine and severely damaged the morale of the Russian army.
According to foreign media reports, Zoga was killed in the attack on the Udong city of “Volnovakha” on the 5th local time, the news has also been confirmed by the leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin. “Today Zorga, the commander of the Spartan independent reconnaissance battalion, died like a hero in Volnovaka,” he wrote on Telegram.
Pushilin claimed that Zoga was evacuating civilians at the time of the incident, but accidentally encountered “Nazis” in Ukraine, resulting in Zoga’s unfortunate death. The report pointed out that Zoga’s death is bound to be another major blow to Putin’s plan to attack Ukraine. Putin has lost several senior officers in the process of the invasion, and his army has not taken Ukrainian territory as quickly as expected.
A number of Western intelligence officials recently revealed to “Sky News” that a total of three commanders of the Russian army have been killed. In addition to Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, who was reported on the 3rd, there is also a division commander and a regiment. Long death. At the same time, the 64-kilometer-long Russian military convoy attacked Kyiv but fell into a serious traffic jam. It was suspected that it was difficult to advance due to logistical problems, and it was repeatedly attacked by the Ukrainian military. However, due to limited resources, it was unable to make a big counterattack.
Arsen Pavlov, the former leader of the Spartan Independent Reconnaissance Battalion in 2016, was killed by a homemade bomb in the elevator of his apartment, and Zoga took over as leader. Pavlov has been charged with several war crimes, and in 2015 the Kyiv Post released an audio recording of a phone call with the news media where he said he had shot 15 prisoners.
