Russia has reportedly lost another colonel in its turbulent invasion of Ukraine.
Russian media reports say 41-year-old Mikhail Nagamov was killed during fighting in Ukraine on April 13th.
He is said to have been the commander of an engineering or sapper regiment from the city of Rostov in the Yaroslavl region, about 130 miles northeast of Moscow.
Several reports cite a post on a page on Russia’s social media platform VK called the Suslonger City Administration. Suslonger is a small town about 400 miles east of Moscow.
The publication says that the “villager” Nagamov attended the local high school, graduating in 1997.
Almost all comments to the post were condolences, although one account responded to several other commenters to accuse Nagamov of committing war crimes in Ukraine.
His death – if confirmed – will be the latest in a long line of high-ranking military casualties suffered by Russia since it invaded Ukraine on February 24th.
At least eight generals have been reported dead – Western officials have counted seven – along with more than 30 colonels.
Nagamov is rumored to have been killed in Ukraine
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Ukraine said on Wednesday that about 20,900 Russian officials had been killed in the war. Russia has not updated its death toll since March 25, when it said 1,351 soldiers had been killed.
On Tuesday, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported that the captain of a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea was dead.
Captain Alexander Chirva was killed in a battle with Ukrainian forces, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev was quoted as saying by TASS.
Russia withdrew legions of troops from all over Ukraine late last month after failing to capture major cities outside the south.
The Russian army launched a new offensive in eastern Ukraine this week, targeting the long-disputed Donbass region along with Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Wanting to project its military power after the setbacks, the Kremlin conducted a test launch on Wednesday of its new Sarmatian nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM).
Vladimir Putin said that the test “will provide food for thought for those who, in the midst of fierce aggressive rhetoric, are trying to threaten our country.”
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