2023-05-14 11:23:00
The Russian army very rarely communicates on this type of event, while the official number of deaths in the conflict remains questionable. The two colonels were hailed for their “heroic” deaths.
Moscow says this Sunday that two of its Russian military officials were killed on the front in Ukraine, a rare communication from the military hierarchy since the start of the military offensive in its neighbor nearly 15 months ago.
Colonels Vyacheslav Makarov and Yevgeny Brovko died “heroically” in Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said during a daily briefing.
A rare communication from Moscow
According to the spokesman, Vyacheslav Makarov, commander of the 4th motorized rifle brigade, repelled with his men “two enemy attacks” before being “seriously injured and dying during his evacuation from the battlefield”.
Yevgeny Brovko, deputy commander of the army corps “in charge of military-political work”, died on the Ukrainian front “after receiving multiple shrapnel wounds”.
Such communication from the Russian military is particularly rare and reflects the intensification of fighting in recent days, as Moscow says it has repelled a Ukrainian assault on a 95 km long front in eastern Ukraine. .
Ukrainian “massive attempts” repelled
Fighting is still raging in and around Bakhmout, the epicenter of hostilities in the Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, “during the last day the enemy has carried out massive attempts to break through the defense of our troops, both north and south” of Bakhmout.
“All (these) attacks have been repelled,” said the same source in a statement.
The Russian ministry also congratulated itself on Sunday for having “touched” in Ternopil (west) and Petropavlivka (center-east) sites housing in particular Western weapons delivered to kyiv.
The Russian army “launched a strike with high-precision long-range air and sea weapons (at sites) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and at places of storage of ammunition, weapons and military equipment received from Western countries “, said Igor Konashenkov. “All targets were hit,” he said.
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