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Prigozhin informed about the liquidation of the commander of the territorial defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Tantsyura

May 2, 2023

The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that this afternoon his gunners destroyed the car in which the commander of the territorial defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Igor Tantsyura, was located.

This information is still being verified, and Prigozhin himself said that a high-ranking serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “presumably” was in the destroyed car.

Tentatively, his death occurred at 13:25 near Artemovsk (Bakhmut), reports “Tsargrad” .

“At the moment, we are clarifying this information,” Prigozhin said.

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings, and named primary sources, corroborating with Reuters, the BBC, and the Kyiv Independent.

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