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Putin ‘loses fourth general’ and seven elite SWAT fighters

Adesina .O (Teekay) by Adesina .O (Teekay)
March 16, 2022
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According to Ukrainian authorities, a fourth Russian general has lost his life in the hands of the country’s forces.

47-year-old Major-General Oleg Mityaev who died along with seven members of an elite SWAT team, is said to have passed away in the storming of Mariupol.

A picture of the corpse of the decorated military officer, a father-of-two, was released by Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.

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The commander of the 150th motorised rifle division is the fourth Russian General to die in the war, according to Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had reported the death of another Russian general in his nightly address but did not name him.

Photos released in Russia also showed six elite “maroon beret” special forces fighters from the Vityaz Special Purpose Centre of the Dzerzhinsky Division.

The unit is named after feared secret police founder of the Soviet Union’s secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Mityaev’s death comes after that of a spy captain during a “top-secret” operation in Ukraine meaning Vladimir Putin has now lost a total of 13 commanders in the invasion.

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