{"id":46703,"date":"2022-03-03T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46703"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:01:02","slug":"hard-blow-to-the-russian-army-a-ukrainian-sniper-kills-general-andrei-sukhovetsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/hard-blow-to-the-russian-army-a-ukrainian-sniper-kills-general-andrei-sukhovetsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard blow to the Russian Army: a Ukrainian sniper kills General Andrei Sukhovetsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/russia-had-as-many-dead-in-ukraine-in-a-single-week-as-in-afghanistan-in-4-months\/\">is not only costing the invaders many casualties<\/a>, but has also already resulted in the death of a Russian general.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/russia-had-as-many-dead-in-ukraine-in-a-single-week-as-in-afghanistan-in-4-months\/\">Russia had as many dead in Ukraine in a single week as in Afghanistan in 4 months<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/ukraine-captures-and-publishes-secret-russian-documents-with-its-plans-for-the-invasion\/\">Ukraine captures and publishes secret Russian documents with its plans for the invasion<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As reported by two Russian media, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/news\/world\/150554-russian_general\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the newspaper Pravda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2022\/03\/03\/general_sukhovetskiy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lenta.ru<\/a>,<strong> on Wednesday Ukrainian forces killed Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Russian Ground Forces.<\/strong> The news was confirmed on the Russian social network <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/wall97294331_10723\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VKontakte<\/a> by Sergey Chipilev, a colleague of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Chipilev has hidden <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/wall97294331_10723\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his profile on that network<\/a>, but before that someone was able to make <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/KyLYe#selection-1723.0-1723.221\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a copy of that entry on archive.ph<\/a>, posted this morning at 10:25. It reads the following: <em>\"<strong>It is with great sorrow that we received the tragic news of the death of our friend, Major General Andrei Aleksandrovich Sukhovetsky<\/strong>, on the territory of Ukraine during a special operation. We express our deepest condolences to the family of Andrei Alexandrovich.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51916377651_d0b876ed7b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; border:2px solid #7F7261;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The announcement of the death of General Sukhovetsky in the VKontakte profile of his colleague Sergey Chipilev, this morning at 10:25 (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/KyLYe#selection-1663.1-1663.13\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archive.ph<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>Pravda <a href=\"https:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/news\/world\/150554-russian_general\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a> that <strong>Andrei Sukhovetsky graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School in 1995:<\/strong> <em>\"As reported on the Ministry of Defense website, he began his career as a platoon commander and rose to chief of staff of the airborne assault unit of the Guard.\"<\/em> According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10573429\/Top-Russian-general-killed-Ukrainian-sniper-Kyiv-claims-9-000-Putins-troops-died.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Russian general would have been eliminated by a Ukrainian sniper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This news is <strong>a serious blow to the morale of the Russian Army<\/strong>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/03\/russia-had-as-many-dead-in-ukraine-in-a-single-week-as-in-afghanistan-in-4-months\/\">had as many dead in Ukraine in a single week as in Afghanistan in 4 months<\/a>, and that is if we stick to the figure of 498 dead Russian soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mod.mil.rus\/posts\/3172006533042081?__cft__[0]=AZUbrs-g-g32jALX3-EgUjvgkO1ida7TnRgJbk81F_DWggSa8qWiE_dm5IpA7C-5QvhmoRZqiVb2xxFlZKzSl-04QPznx_qRCOLVwWj9_dOebhv6IBjhxOXNejPtSNyrUL0_xSRM8fWZmWfOd4k0hQY6w0yluYuXYTYYZycnxWjo7g&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published yesterday<\/a> by the Ministry of Defense From Russia. <strong>The death of a Russian general in the first week of the invasion will be a spur to the Ukrainians<\/strong>, who are staging a stiff resistance against the invader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not only costing the invaders many casualties, but has also already resulted in the death of a Russian general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11544,10429],"tags":[16208,10731,12043,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-46703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-second","tag-major-general-andrei-sukhovetsky","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}