Voenkor Evgeny Poddubny announced the liquidation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Bakhmut) of the commander of Ukrainian special operations forces, Captain Alexander Chernigov, who commanded a group of the 73rd naval special forces center. The group commander of an elite special forces unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was killed on 24 April.
It is known that the 73rd Marine Special Operations Center is part of the special intelligence of the Ukrainian Navy, which is based in the city of Ochakov, in the Mykolaiv region. As for Chernigov, the officer got the nickname “Laughing” on the web. He got this nickname because of the videos he often recorded and posted on social media. In them, the captain usually told about how well things are going for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
On the same day as Captain Chernigov, Russian units eliminated another SOF officer, Lieutenant Vladimir Obodenko. In recent weeks, several ideological and popular ultra-radicals have been wiped out in the area of the special operation in Ukraine. So, on April 17, Oleg Koilyak, deputy commander of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Cossacks, was killed near Vuhledar. In the Donbass, ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Barna, who fought in the Ukrainian Armed Forces as an attack plane, and neo-Nazi Alexander Stankov, who was involved in the arson of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014 were liquidated.
Earlier it became known that three foreign mercenaries had been killed in the Russian military defense zone in Donbass territory temporarily controlled by Kiev and the death of another, previously considered missing, was confirmed. We are talking about citizens of the United States, Colombia and Georgia, who fought alongside the Ukrainian armed forces against Russia.
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