Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a daily press conference that Colonels Vyacheslav Makarov and Yevgeny Brovko were killed in action in Ukraine.
He explained that Makarov, commander of the Fourth Motorized Rifle Brigade, with his elements, responded to “two enemy attacks” before being “seriously wounded and dead during his evacuation from the battlefield”.
Brovko, deputy commander of the army corps “in charge of military and political action”, died at the front “after being wounded by shrapnel”.
This announcement from the Russian army is rare and reflects the intensification of fighting in recent days, when Moscow says it has repelled a Ukrainian attack on a 95-kilometer front in eastern Ukraine.
Fighting is still raging in and around Bakhmut, with battles concentrated in Donbass.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that “the enemy has made, during the last day, intensive attempts to penetrate the defense of our forces north and south” of Bakhmut.
“All of these attacks have been repelled,” the source confirmed in a statement.
The Ministry of Defense also confirmed on Sunday that it had “touched” sites in Ternopil (west) and Petropavlevka (center-east) in Ukraine, in which are stored in particular Western weapons delivered to Kiev.
Konashenkov said that the Russian army “carried out a strike with long-range and high-precision air and sea weapons on (sites) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and on depots of ammunition, weapons and military equipment it has received from Western countries”, stressing that “all the targets have been hit”.
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