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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.