Putin suffers ANOTHER huge loss as two of Russia’s top commanders are killed by Ukrainian troops battling to take control of Bakhmut
- Two of Russia’s top commanders were killed amid bitter fighting in Ukraine
Two of Russia’s top commanders were killed yesterday amid bitter fighting in the east of Ukraine.
The Russian Defence Ministry said Commander Vyacheslav Makarov of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade and Deputy Commander Yevgeny Brovko from a separate unit were killed trying to repel Ukrainian attacks.
The battle for Bakhmut has raged for a year as Ukrainian and Russian troops have even had to fight hand-to-hand with bayonets.
It said Makarov had been leading troops from the front line while Brovko ‘died heroically, suffering multiple shrapnel wounds’.
The defence ministry rarely announces the deaths of military command in its daily briefings,…