Another Russian general killed amid invasion, Russian official says

The governor of St. Petersburg verified that yet another Russian normal has been killed amid the invasion of Ukraine, honoring him in a ceremony on Saturday, Russian media claimed.

The deputy commander of the 8th Army, Maj. Gen. Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, died though preventing versus Ukraine, a Russian news shops reported, citing St. Petersburg’s administration’s push company.

“Today we say goodbye to a real hero. Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died a heroic death in battle with Ukrainian nationalists,” Gov. Alexander Beglov explained, Russian condition information company Tass documented, citing the press services. 

“He sacrificed his lifetime so that small children, females and the aged in the Donbas would no for a longer period hear bomb explosions. To quit ready for dying and leaving house, to say goodbye as if it have been the last time.”

The governor identified as Frolov a “true patriot” and “brave,” incorporating he “fulfilled his armed forces and human responsibility,” in accordance to St. Petersburg on line newspaper Fontanka.

Several other Russian generals and leading army personnel have reportedly been killed in Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbor, which includes deputy commander of the 41st Merged Arms Army of the Central Military District Andrei Sukhovetsky, Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, Lt. Gen Yakov Rezantsev, and Col. Sergei Sukharev, commander of the elite 331st Guards Airborne Regiment.

Russia, unsuccessful in its initial tries to seize Kyiv, is now readying by itself for a renewed offensive in Ukraine’s jap Donbas area. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an job interview with Ukrainian media that negotiations in between Russia and Ukraine could sunset if Russia kills the remaining Ukrainian forces in Mariupol.