Major-General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, had returned to active service after retirement as a commander in Russia s illegal Ukrainian invasion. He died in a firefight, reports said.
Russia yesterday admitted that it has given up trying to hold Snake Island in the face of withering Ukrainian artillery fire, the latest in a long line of humiliating battlefield defeats for Putin s armed forces.
The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable retirement in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine.
Colonel Ruslan Shirin, Lieutenant-Colonel Vadim Gerasimov, and Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Nigmatullin are the latest additions to the growing list of killed Russian colonels in Ukraine.