A high-ranking Russian commander, Lieutenant General Oleg Chukov, was killed on Tuesday near the occupied city of Berdyansk in the south of the Zaporizhia region, Ukrainian officials said, citing CNN.
“It was found out that today in the Berdyansk region, Russian Lieutenant General Tsokov Oleg Yuriyovych was killed,” said Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko, who is in exile.
Andryushchenko said that Chukov was the target of Ukrainian shelling earlier, in September 2022, when he was only wounded. Now the death of the Russian commander is “complete”, Andryushchenko added.
Another Ukrainian official, People’s Deputy Yury Misyagin also commented on the commander’s death.
“On July 11, 2023, in the south, in the area of occupied Berdyansk, Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Yuriyovich Tsokov died,” Misyagin said.
“The British Storm Shadow missile arrived with precision,” he added, without elaborating.
The commander, who was put on the sanctions list of several countries because of the war, was the commander of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces.
Source: Hot News
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