Big blow to Putin; Ukraine's claim proved true, the death of a Russian general in the war
A Russian general has been killed in a battle near the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. This has come as a shock to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was buried in St. Petersburg. The governor has informed me about this. Russia's Major General Vladimir was the deputy commander of detachment eight.
According to Russian media, the detachment had been stationed in Mariupol for several weeks. Alexander Beglov, the governor of St. Petersburg, Russia, said Frolov had died as a hero in the war. He did not say when or where Frolov died.
Ukraine has claimed that several Russian generals and other senior officials have been killed in the war. Russian security forces, meanwhile, bombed an oil refinery in the Ukrainian city of Lisichansk on Saturday. So there was a terrible fire. This information was given by the governor of this area. Luhansk governor Serihi Haidai said this was not the first time an oil refinery had been targeted. He has accused Russian troops of trying to destroy the local emergency services. He said there was no fuel in the oil refinery at the time of the attack and the oil content caught fire.
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces have fired on eight regions - Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv in the east, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Kirovohrid in central Ukraine, and Mikoliv and Khersan in the south - Ukraine's presidential office. Ukraine's Deputy prime minister Irina Veereshchuk said on tv that more than 700 Ukrainian soldiers and more than 1,000 civilians had been taken hostage by Russian troops. More than half of these citizens are women.