Lt Gen Yakov Rezanstev is the latest Russian commander killed during the invasion of Ukraine, in what analysts say has been an unusually successful tactic.
The UK has reported that Russia has hired the Wagner Group to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following Putin's stalled invasion of Ukraine.
During their Ukraine deployment Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechen units are believed to have lost hundreds of soldiers before eventually returning to Grozny on March 13. Ukrinform.
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