Russian general was killed in eastern Ukraine says reporter

• Russian general was killed in eastern Ukraine, according to a Russian official media journalist, adding to Moscow’s long list of high-ranking military losses.
• The Russian defence ministry did not respond immediately.
• Russian soldiers have stepped up their attacks on Sievierodonetsk, a crucial city in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area that Moscow is pursuing after failing to capture Kyiv early in the conflict.

Russian general was killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, according to a Russian official media journalist, adding to Moscow’s long list of high-ranking military losses.

The article, written by state television reporter Alexander Sladkov and uploaded on the Telegram messaging app, does not specify when or where Major General Roman Kutuzov was slain. The Russian defence ministry did not respond immediately.

Russian soldiers have stepped up their attacks on Sievierodonetsk, a crucial city in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area that Moscow is pursuing after failing to capture Kyiv early in the conflict.

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Even in times of peace, Russia treats military deaths as state secrets, and it hasn’t updated its official fatality counts in Ukraine since March 25, when it reported 1,351 Russian soldiers had died since the start of the military campaign on Feb. 24.

Russia claims to be conducting a “special military operation” in Ukraine to demilitarise the country and rid it of nationalists who pose a threat to the country’s Russian-speaking population. Russia’s assertions are dismissed by Ukraine and Western countries as a justification to invade.

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