Putin ‘Loses Fourth General’ And 7 Elite SWAT Fighters

Ukraine’s military has killed a fourth Russian general, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, and seven members of an elite SWAT unit are said to have died in the storming of Mariupol.

A picture of the corpse of the decorated military officer, a father-of-two, was released by Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.

The commander of the 150th motorised rifle division is the fourth Russian General to die in the war, according to Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had reported the death of another Russian general in his nightly address but did not name him.

Photos released in Russia also showed six elite “maroon beret” special forces fighters from the Vityaz Special Purpose Centre of the Dzerzhinsky Division.

The unit is named after feared secret police founder of the Soviet Union’s secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Mityaev’s death comes only days after the killing of a spy captain during a “top-secret” operation in Ukraine, bringing Vladimir Putin’s total number of commanders killed in the invasion to thirteen.