Fifth Russian general killed by Ukraine forces

PBC News:  Russia has lost its fifth General in the war in Ukraine, according to army high command in Kyiv. Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev was one of Vladimir Putin ’s most senior commanders, in charge of the 8th All-Military Army of the Kremlin’s vast Southern Military District.

Moscow did not initially confirm his death in keeping with most previous claims of the the deaths of several generals.

Ukraine now claims to have killed five holding the rank of General, UK based The Mirror reports.

“As a result of fire on the enemy by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the commander of the 8th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvishev was killed,” said a statement from the army general staff in Kyiv.

The statement did not say where he was killed but other accounts claimed it was in the village of Chornobaivka, Kherson Region.

This was attributed to Vadym Denysenko, advisor to the Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister.

The Ukrainians also claimed that wounded Russian soldiers have filled all hospital facilities in Gomel city in Belarus.