Goryachev.

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Storm Shadow British cruise missile on target! One more senior Russian officer vanquished!

"SHADOW STRIKE ‘British Storm Shadow missile’ kills top Putin general in most senior Russian loss since Ukraine counterattack launched"

https://www.thesun.co.uk | the article by Katie Davis Will Stewart | 13 Jun 2023.

"A TOP Russian army general has been killed in Ukraine in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin."

Major-General Sergey Goryachev, 52, was struck by a long-range British-supplied Storm Shadow missile in Zaporizhzhia region, according to Moscow war sources. 

Goryachev reputed to the Chief of Staff [CoS] the Russian 35th Combined Arms Army. Goryachev the most senior Russian general officer a combat fatality?

See all previous blog entries [some with further embedded links] the combat deaths of Russian general officers during the Ukraine Conflict. Persons I imagine not so easily replaced:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/02/ulyanov.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/06/kutuzov.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/05/obligated.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/04/49th-caa.html

Hey! Nobody ever said this war in Ukraine was going to be easy, did they?

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