Russian general Dmitry Ulyanov is killed in Ukraine in latest blow to Putin
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Another Russian general dies in Ukraine in latest blow to Putin: Elite paratrooper commander who came out of retirement to help in invasion is killed by Kyiv sabotage team
- Major General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, was killed in a shootout with a sabotage group.
- He was previously a senior paratrooper and returned to service after his retirement.
Vladimir Putin has lost another general in the war in Ukraine, according to reports.
Major General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, had returned to active duty after retiring as a commander in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
He was killed in a gunfight when attacked by a Ukrainian sabotage group this week, reports say.
Previously, Ulyanov was a senior paratrooper, commander of the elite 98th Guards Airborne Division.
He went to the current war in command of a motorized infantry regiment mobilized from Tatarstan.
Major General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, had returned to active duty after retiring as a commander in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
He was killed in a gunfight when attacked by a Ukrainian sabotage group this week, reports say.
Assassinated Major General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, had commanded Russia’s elite 98th Airborne Division, seen here in 2019 in Moscow’s Red Square.
Ulyanov had previously served as Chief of Staff of the 7th Airborne Division, commander of the 1141st Artillery Regiment and commander of the 98th Airborne Division, open sources say.
Ulyanov is the first high-ranking commander to be killed in many months.
A family friend published that he had been the son of a commander.
“Like his father didn’t sit in the back, he went to the front line,” the eulogy said.
Ulyanov is the first high-ranking commander to be killed in many months.
The death means that Putin, pictured via video link on February 3, has lost at least ten of those top commanders.
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a damaged residential building after a missile attack, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on February 5.
This photo shows the remains of a destroyed building at Chasiv Yar on February 5.
‘Glory to the Hero! Glory to the Airborne Forces!
The death means that Putin has lost at least ten of those top commanders.
Reports from last year named the following top commanders killed in the war: Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, Major General Andrei Kolesnikov, 45, Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky, Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 44, Major General Vladimir Frolov, 54, Major General Andrei Simonov, 55, Major General Oleg Mityaev, 48, Major General Kanamat Botashev, 63, and Major General Roman Kutuzov, 53.
Several other earlier claims of high-ranking officers killed in the war were subsequently unconfirmed.
The other fallen generals of Russia
General Magomed Tushaev: Chechen special forces leader who had led ‘anti-gay purges’ killed in an ambush near Hostomel on February 26, 2022
Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky: Deputy Commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District killed during a special operation by a sniper on March 4, 2022
General Magomed Tushaev (right) was blown up by Ukraine in the early stages of the war after they joined the Russian invasion.
Major General Vitaly Gerasimov: First deputy commander of Russia’s 41st Army involved in operations in Syria and Crimea, killed in fighting around Kharkiv on March 8, 2022
Major General Andrei Kolesnikov: Commander of the 29th Combined Army assassinated on March 11, 2022
Major General Vitaly Gerasimov (left) was the first deputy commander of Russia’s 41st Army and took part in operations in Syria and Crimea. He was killed in fighting around Kharkiv on March 8.
Major General Oleg Mityaevdied fighting near the city of Mariupol on March 16, 2022
Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichevkilled in the Kherson region on March 19, 2022
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsevcommander of Russia’s 49th Combined Army, killed in an attack near the southern city of Kherson on March 25, 2022
major general Vladimir Frolov he was deputy commander of the 8th Guards Army in eastern Ukraine. His grave in St. Petersburg was photographed in May.
Major General Anton Siminov: A ninth Russian general was reportedly killed in a Ukrainian artillery strike near Kharkiv in May
Major General Kanamat Botashev63, was shot down and killed by Ukrainian forces
Major General Roman Kutuzovchief of staff of the 29th Combined Arms Army, was ambushed in his vehicle by Ukrainians before being killed in a fight in Donbas, according to reports.
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, commander of Russia’s 49th Combined Army. He was killed in an attack near the southern city of Kherson on March 25, 2022.
The grave of Major General Vladimir Frolov at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg. The circumstances of his death remain unclear.