Rusland verloor NOG kolonel… wat in die veld gestuur is om die vorige een wat Oekraïne vermoor het te vervang: Beampte sterf in 'n hinderlaag wat rivier oorsteek
Vladimir Poetin has suffered another grievous blow after he lost his 42nd colonel in his bloody war in Oekraïne.
Colonel Denis Kozlov, 40, was the second commander of the 12th Separate Guards Engineers of Keningsbersko-Gorodokskaya Red Banner Brigade to die in the conflict.
Kozlov had replaced Colonel Sergei Porokhnya, 45, who was killed in Ukraine on 14 Maart.
But the officer was among Russian troops to perish on May 11 in a failed advance across the Donets River at Bilohorivka, west of the city of Lysychansk, in the Donbas region, after Ukrainian troops successfully ambushed them.

Colonel Denis Kozlov, 40, was the second commander of the 12th Separate Guards Engineers of Keningsbersko-Gorodokskaya Red Banner Brigade to die in the conflict

Kozlov had replaced Colonel Sergei Porokhnya, 45, (op die foto) who was killed in Ukraine on 14 Maart
Kozlov, who was guiding a pontoon ferry across the river at the time, was killed after Ukrainian forces launched missile strikes on the area.
Satellite images laid bare the scale of Russia’s failure with the remains of two pontoon bridges seen drifting in the Donets river, surrounded by the ruins of destroyed tanks and armoured vehicles.
It appears Russian commanders were attempting to surround Lysychansk – and its sister city of Severodonetsk – with the crossing, but saw their sneak-attack turn into a massacre when Ukraine correctly guessed their plans.
‘Maxim’, a Twitter user claiming to be a Ukrainian military engineer, says he identified the spot where Russia was most-likely to try crossing the river on May 7 and told his commanders to listen out for the sound of tugboat engines pushing a pontoon bridge into place as a sure sign that a crossing was imminent.
Haar internetsoekrekords wys dat sy na taalskole in die Latyns-Amerikaanse land soek 8 Russia blanketed the river with smoke by burning nearby fields and throwing smoke grenades, hy het gesê, but commanders detected the sound of boat engines and called in artillery strikes which caused devastating losses.
Kozlov was posthumously decorated with the Russian Order of Courage, and laid to rest in his hometown Murom.

Satellite images laid bare the scale of Russia’s failure with the remains of two pontoon bridges seen drifting in the Donets river, surrounded by the ruins of destroyed tanks and armoured vehicles
die adjunkbevelvoerder van die 41ste Combined Arms Army van die Sentrale Militêre Distrik – the 42nd known colonel to perish in the war – highlights the huge toll suffered by Putin’s top brass.
Nine Russian generals are also known to have died with reports that the US has assisted Ukraine with intelligence to allow them to target Putin’s top brass.
The death rate is around one colonel every two days.
In Maart, Luitenant-kolonel Alexander Blinov, 42, was killed but news of his death was strenuously denied by Russian officials.
His death was confirmed in May by a picture on his grave in Volgograd, suidwestelike Rusland.
Blinov was 'n getroude pa van drie. 'N Familievriend gesê: 'Vir ons is dit net 'n skok.’ Hy het in 'n gemotoriseerde geweereenheid gedien.

In Maart, Luitenant-kolonel Alexander Blinov, 42, was killed but news of his death was strenuously denied by Russian officials

Lt-kol Fezul Bichikaev, 36, het in Mei in die Oekraïne gesterf 2, 2022, word die 39ste Russiese kolonel wat in die Oekraïne gesterf het
Vroeër vandeesmaand, news emerged of Putin’s 39th killed colonel Fezul Bichikaev, 36.
Die luitenant-kolonel was 'n hoogvlieënde elite-soldaat wat na bewering op 'n geheime intelligensiesending dood is.
Die pa van drie is uitgebeeld as 'n held wat naby vermoor is Oekraïens wat bebloed maar lewend na vore gekom het in 'n ikoniese beeld van Russiese missielaanval, wys haar liefde vir die natuur in bekoorlike foto's van voor Poetin haar tuisland binnegeval het 'met 'n masjiengeweer in sy hande wat sy ondergeskiktes bedek', Rusland se president Vladimir Poetin en voorsitter en uitvoerende hoof van Promsvyazbank Petr Fradkov.
Die werklike tol van dooie Russiese hooggeplaaste offisiere is hoër aangesien die ministerie van verdediging min sterftes erken het.
Bichikaev was een van Rusland se jongste kolonels, tweede in bevel van sy regiment, en sy dood het neergekom op 'n swaar, onherstelbare verlies', het die Oekraïense verklaring gesê.
Bichikaev se dood het gekom 'n dag na die bekendmaking van die dood van lt-kol Fyodor Solovyov, 44, in die Donbas.
Solovyov was bevelvoerder van die houwitser selfaangedrewe artillerie regiment van die 127ste gemotoriseerde geweer afdeling in Poetin se weermag.
Hy is met volle militêre eerbewyse en 'n driedubbele sarsie gewere in Chunaki-dorpie begrawe, Penza-streek.
Vier dae tevore het lt-kol Eduard Dmitriev, 44, 'n tenkbevelvoerder, is na berig word vermoor.