A top Russian general was killed earlier this week while fighting in Ukraine.
Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky was the commander of the Russian 7th Airborne Division. He was appointed the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District last year.
The Associated Press reports:
His death was confirmed by a local officers’ organization in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia. The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear.
Sukhovetsky, who was 47, took part in Russia’s military campaign in Syria. A funeral ceremony will be held in Novorossiisk.
The Independent, citing ‘military sources,’ reports that Sukhovetsky was killed by a sniper and that his death is a “bitter blow for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.”
“The fact is, we killed him,” Volodymyr Omelyan, Ukraine’s former minister of infrastructure, told Fox News.
