Attack on command center
Ukraine reports deaths of two more generals
04/24/2022, 09:17 am
Ukraine may have another win against Russia. According to the Defense Ministry, Ukrainian troops are destroying a key Russian command center in the south of the country. Dozens of officers are said to have been inside at the time of the attack.
Ukraine says it has destroyed a Russian command center in the southern Kherson region. This is reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Facebook. Accordingly, two Russian generals were killed in the attack. Another was taken to hospital in critical condition.
The Ukrainian data cannot be independently confirmed. in one interview with Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the military strike was also an issue. the “New York Times” quotes the former Ukrainian intelligence officer as saying that around 50 Russian officers were in the command center at the time of the attack: “Their fate is unclear, but I think they are miserable.”
Cherson is located on the Black Sea, just a few kilometers north of Crimea, annexed by Russia. The port city was the first major metropolitan area captured by Russian troops after their February 24 invasion. According to the information, as a command center, it was of great strategic importance for further warfare in southern Ukraine. According to this, the offensive on the largest Ukrainian port city of Odessa was planned from there, but it failed in Mykolaiv due to the bitter resistance of the Ukrainian troops.
Already ten dead generals?
If the Ukrainian reports are confirmed, the string of high-profile Russian military casualties will continue. Within the first four weeks of the war alone, Russia is said to have lost a third of its 20 generals who were supposed to secure the attack on Ukraine on the battlefield. In mid-April, Ukraine announced the death of an eighth general. So far, Russia has only confirmed the death of the deputy commander of the 41st Army, Andrei Sukhovetsky.
Military experts blame incompetence, among other things, for the unusually high losses. Accordingly, the Russian army in Ukraine “repeatedly uses the same mistake and, for example, uses unencrypted devices for communication, so that Ukrainian units can locate their location. Another reason is said to be poor planning of the invasion. According to this, the generals are forced to stay close to the front to stop in order to be able to command the Russian troops.