General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Russian army, died in combat in Ukraine, and was buried this Saturday in Saint Petersburg, report two Russian media.
General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the Russian 8th Army, was killed in the war in Ukraine and was buried in Saint Petersburg on Saturday, Russian media Fontanka and Kommersant reported.
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“The major general died during the Russian military special operation in Ukraine”reports the Russian site Kommersant, citing the press service of the administration of Saint Petersburg.
His funeral, with military honors, took place at the Serafimovsky cemetery in the presence of Alexander Beglov, the governor of Saint Petersburg, specify the two sites. According to the governor, Vladimir Frolov “fell to the death of the brave” in combat “in battles with the Ukrainian enemy”.
Kommersant adds that General Frolov was the grandson of a soldier of the “Great Patriotic War” – the participation of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, editor’s note.
This new disappearance would bring to six the number of generals who have died in war since February 24, to which is added the disappearance of an admiral.
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Three weeks earlier, Ukraine claimed to have killed the commander of Russia’s 49th Southern District Army, General Yakov Rezantsev.
The death rate among high-ranking Russian officers is very high. The adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, described him as “extraordinary», attributing it to «total lack of preparationof the Moscow army adding that “dozens of mid-ranking officers (lieutenants, captains, Editor’s note) were killed“.
If the only figure of five generals killed were confirmed, it would mean that Vladimir Putin’s troops would have lost more than a quarter of their generals in less than a month, since the various analysts estimate their number on the ground at around twenty. By comparison, the US military lost two generals in the Korean War, which lasted three years with very high intensity phases. In Vietnam, she had lost thirteen for more than ten years of military engagement.
This could be explained in particular by a deliberate desire by Ukraine to target the class of Russian officers, in order to disrupt the chain of command of the Russian army.