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Major shakeups are underway in the Russian command structure in Ukraine, according to a report from the Institute for the Study of War Experts found that top officials may be blamed for not fully capturing Ukraine and the Kremlin may replace those officers with new faces Russia has suffered significant losses since the invasion of Ukraine began almost four months ago, including a dozen high ranking generals The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne forces and could be in the process of a major shakeup of their current command structure in Ukraine, according to a new report...

Russian general's body recovered almost one month after he was killed Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, was killed in an ambush fighting in Mariupol It is claimed that Russia has lost seven generals in the invasion of Ukraine so far First was Chechen Major General Magomed Tushayev, killed on second day The body was recovered after reports that a Ukrainian brigade had surrendered Russia has finally retrieved the body of one of its seven generals slain in Ukraine almost a month after he was killed, reports say. The corpse of a general believed to be Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of...

The dawn deadline Russia gave determined Ukrainian soldiers to surrender and lay down their weapons in Mariupol passed without incident on Sunday morning, as Vladimir Putin’s increasingly sloppy troops closed in on the strategic port city.Russia’s defense ministry, still reeling from the loss of 8th Army Major General Vladimir Frolov in combat on Saturday, was just as determined, threatening to “eliminate” any Ukrainian and foreign troops trying to hold on to the battered city.Russia has made considerable gains on the city after spending weeks trying to wipe it off the map. Western intelligence officials said it could fall to Russia...

NEW YORK (AP) – A Russian general whose troops have been besieging the Ukrainian port of Mariupol was buried on Saturday in St Petersburg after dying in battle, the governor said. Major General Vladimir Frolov was deputy commander of the 8th Army, which Russian media identified as being among the forces battering Mariupol for weeks.….

Russian Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Army, was buried Saturday after being killed in combat in Ukraine, Russian state media reported, making him the eighth Russian general believed to have been killed in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Key Facts A funeral for Frolov was held at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, according to the Russian news agency TASS. St. Petersburg Gov. Alexander Beglov said Frolov fought in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, TASS reported, without elaborating. Some of the generals who were killed were veterans of Russian operations in Georgia and Syria, the Wall Street...

Russia confirms that Maj Gen Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine.