Russia loses a FOURTH general and seven SWAT fighters from elite unit under Putin's direct control - as top Russian airman warns scale of losses will 'horrify' the nation when they learn the truth

Daily Mail ^ | 3/16/2022 | Will Stewart

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Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has said, along with seven members of an elite force under Vladimir Putin's direct command as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine.

Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting around the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine's interior ministry said late Tuesday as officials released a photo of what they claimed was his corpse on the battlefield.

It marks the fourth Russian general that Ukraine claims to have taken out and the 13th officer overall, as Putin's invading forces suffer heavy losses at the hands of dogged Ukrainian defenders.

Seven elite SWAT fighters from the feared Dzerzhinsky Division of Russia's national guard were also revealed to have died in the fighting.

A mourning picture was released in Russia showing the photographs of six elite 'maroon beret' special forces fighters from the Vityaz Special Purpose Centre of the Dzerzhinsky Division, named after Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky. It was later revealed that a seventh had been slain.

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Blunders early on in the campaign including poor planning and logistics that saw vehicles stall due to breakdowns, run out of fuel and get bogged down in mud are thought to be behind the eye-watering officer death toll - as commanders were forced to the front to fix the problems before being picked off by Ukrainians.

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Blunders early on in the campaign including poor planning and logistics that saw vehicles stall due to breakdowns, run out of fuel and get bogged down in mud are thought to be behind the eye-watering officer death toll - as commanders were forced to the front to fix the problems before being picked off by Ukrainians.

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An entire column of Russian T80U tanks from the elite 4th Guards ‘Kantemirovskaya’ Tank Division stuck in the mud and abandoned by their crews.

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1503828594866462720

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Ukrainian soldier with a Javelin ATGM and a destroyed Russian T-72B tank.

https://twitter.com/WarReportUk/status/1504055983621955590

[NorseViking]

Another doze of Daily Propaganda?:)

[JonPreston]

There is something seriously wrong with this man

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I would suspect camera drones would be incredibly effective for locating targets.

[bert]

Face it...... Your Russians are failing and being killed in droves

[Scarlett156]

I guess the SARS and related vaccines weren’t doing the trick fast enough?

[SmokingJoe]

This is at least the 4th time this story has been posted.
Generals like other soldiers die in wars.
What's new about that?

[bankwalker]

for some reason they continually post to themselves ...

[marcusmaximus]

[Lurker]

“Another doze of Daily Propaganda?”

I hope every word of it is true.

L

[marcusmaximus]

[SmokingJoe]

Your Russians are failing and being killed in droves

And the Ukrainians?
How are they doing?

[marcusmaximus]

[SmokingJoe]

You got more pictures?
Keep em coming boy.

[marcusmaximus]

[bert]

Well, we can presume they are making out OK

The Russians seem to be stalledout

[Mmogamer]

So are you going to believe the media when the virus makes a comeback?

[BiglyCommentary]

Putin is really screwed. In the modern internet age there is no way to hide the truth. The Russian people from the lowest to the wealthiest oligarchs will want his head on a pike for causing all the harm to them, all for his own meglomaniac fantasy.