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| Ukrainian general dies in a Russian missile strike in Chernigov |
| 2024-04-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian troops attacked the command post of the Ukrainian army, located in a hotel in Chernigov, during the attack, Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the North group of troops, Dmitry Krasilnikov, was allegedly killed, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on April 17, citing data from the Telegram channel “Donbass partisans." According to military officers, at the time of the attack on the Ukrainian command post, a meeting was taking place there with the participation of Krasilnikov. There is no official information about his fate yet. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet reported that the Russian army carried out strikes on Chernigov on April 17. As Regnum reported, ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk on April 17 announced his arrival at a hotel in Chernigov, where military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were located. He said that many Ukrainian military personnel were killed and injured, but there is no exact data yet. Ukrainian edition “Country.ua" on April 17 reported about explosions in Chernigov. Before this, an air raid alert was announced in the city. More from regnum.ru In Ukraine, the Russian strike on a hotel with Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in Chernigov was considered a jewel. There were Ukrainian soldiers in a hotel in Chernigov that came under attack by Russian troops. As military correspondent Alexander Kots said on April 17, the accuracy of the strike could not be ignored even in Ukraine itself. “While the Ukrainian media howl about a treacherous attack on a peaceful hotel, KGB agents represented by the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the Square are publishing objective control. And in it, in the windows of a broken “peaceful” hotel, army bunk beds are clearly visible,” he wrote in the Telegram channel. According to the military commander, the hotel has been officially closed since February 2022, but there is a military unit next to it, and clusters of Ukrainian Armed Forces have often been seen in the area. As Regnum reported, on the same day it became known that the Russian military had struck a command post of Ukrainian troops located in Chernigov. According to information at that time, the point was destroyed, but there was no official confirmation. Later, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Igor Mosiychuk (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered losses in killed and wounded when they struck a hotel building in the center of Chernigov, in which Ukrainian military personnel were located. According to him, at the moment no one will report the exact number of losses of the Ukrainian army. After this, the media stated that as a result of a strike on the command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a hotel in Chernigov, Lieutenant General of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, commander of the North group of troops, Dmitry Krasilnikov, was allegedly killed. At the time of the strike on the facility, a meeting was taking place there with his participation; there is no official information about his death. There is also no official confirmation from the Russian Ministry of Defense about the strike. |
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