Russian officials said this weekend that a pair of its military commanders died repelling Ukrainian attacks around Bakhmut, the city that has been the focus of fierce fighting along the eastern front for months.
Two top Russian officers were killed on the frontline in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense said on Sunday, in a rare disclosure of high-level casualties.
Makarov was “personally” leading a battle on the front lines when he was seriously wounded, Konashenkov said in a statement, dying as he was evacuated from the battlefield. Brovko similarly “heroically died after receiving multiple shrapnel wounds,” he added.
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