as bitter fighting for Severodonetsk rages on in battle that will decide fate of Donbas Lt-Col Vadim Gerasimov, 36, was posthumously awarded a Hero of Russia It was unclear when he was killed, but his funeral was set to take place Thursday Death of a second high-ranked office, Colonel Ruslan Shirin, was also reported The pair become the 51st and 52nd Russian Colonels to be killed in Ukraine since Vladimir Putin launched his brutal invasion on February 24 Meanwhile, footage emerged of Ukrainian forces launching strikes on Russia's One video showed an airstrike land feet away from a Russian personnel...
