A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed during special operation .
Sergeants Alexei and Anton Vorobyov, 29, were killed fighting side by side with the 150th Rifle Division on March 12, three weeks after Moscow s forces invaded Ukraine on February 24.
An eighth Russian colonel has been killed in Ukraine in another devastating blow to Vladimir Putin's invasion. In a statement, Kyiv said it had 'elimin