A NINTH Russian colonel has been killed in Ukraine as the country’s armed forces say 19,000 of the invaders have now died.

Colonel Alexander Bespalov was given a funeral back in Russia but many soldiers corpses have been left to rot on the battlefield, to the despair of their mourning relatives.

Bespalov was a tank commander and he becomes the latest senior officer Vladimir Putin’s forces have lost in the disastrous invasion.

His death comes after Ukraine announced it had "eliminated" Colonel Denis Kurilo, commander of the 200th motorised rifle brigade, in fierce fighting outside the country's second city Kharkiv.

Bespalov was commander of the 59th Tank Guards Tank Regiment, Russia’s 74.RU news website reports.

No more details were revealed about the circumstances of his death but pictures show him with a large number of medals.

Throughout the war, video has emerged of large numbers of Russian tanks being obliterated by Ukrainian soldiers using missiles supplied by Britain and other countries.

Earlier this week shocking footage showed bodies of Russian soldiers piled up after they were allegedly ambushed in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine.

Many relatives of dead Russian soldiers have yet to see their bodies returned home.

Vadim Kolodiy's mum Tatyana has not received the body of the 19-year-old, who died after he was trapped in his armoured personnel carrier.

“No one cares about them. How many of these children, husbands, are there? How much pain had this all brought?”

Bespalov’s death comes after at least seven of Putin's generals were wiped out in the country.

In comparison, the Soviet Union lost just five generals during ten years of brutal fighting in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

One of the other senior officers killed was mown down was mown down and killed with a tank by his own men after leading them to huge losses on the battlefield.

Western officials say mutinying troops deliberately crushed their Colonel Yuri Medvedev of the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade.

It comes as it comes as a Kremlin spokesman admitted to "significant losses" of troops.

Vladimir Putin's mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov said the losses were a "huge tragedy" for Russia.

RUSSIA'S SLAIN COMMANDERS
Putin's top brass killed since the invasion of Ukraine:

Major Dmitry Toptun
Major Alexey Osokin
Major General Vitaly Gerasimov
Major General Andrei Kolesnikov
Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky
Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko
Colonel Sergei Porokhyna
Colonel Sergei Sukharev
Colonel Andrei Zakharov
Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky
General Magomed Tushaev
Colonel Alexei Sharov
Colonel Yuri Medvedev
Colonel Denis Kurilo
Colonel Alexander Bespalov

As well as tank soldiers, large numbers of elite airborne troops have also been killed.

Haunting video shows the pictures of all 55 soldiers from one elite Russian regiment killed in Ukraine lined up on a table.

The pictures of the dead soldiers from the 247th Guards Airborne Regiment include Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky who was killed in the south of Ukraine.

At the end, a long line of photographs can be seen, testament to slaughter faced by Russia's forces and in particular its airborne forces in Ukraine.

Reports are now emerging of mutinies among Russian troops, with even paratroopers among those refusing to fight.


According to Ukrainian estimates, 19000 soldiers have now been killed fighting the Russians.

A senior NATO official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told AP that figure could be as high as 40,000 captured, injured or dead Russian troops.

This has prompted Russian elite paratroopers to stage a mutiny after witnessing their comrades being wiped out in battle, reports claim.

Among them are said to be soldiers from the 247th Guards Airborne Regiment.

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Dying like fowls

Due to the disappointing outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, Putin has been forced to change command. A new Commander has now been appointed in the person of General Alexander Dvornikov

Russian Military is just a pile of dog poo

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Russian military is a mess.

Reeks of long-term crass embezzlement of funds.

Army General wey dey drive tank

Lol. Spokesperson for the Ukrainian military, weldone. You deserve serious pay for the job you do. Tha being said, this is not avoidable. The battle has moved into urban warfare and anyone on the frontline in an urban warfare is at huge risk of loss of life. Urban warfare is the most difficult kind of combat so if so many commanders are dying, it's nothing strange. It's what comes with the nature of the warfare.

Na Inside Ukraine Putin go die.
Soon he ll go n inspect the war na there he go die.

The way putin is been intimidated by a little Ukrainian army.His military are being humiliated; his generals being decimated and his weapons being captured and destroyed.

Putin only your gullible supporters on nairaland believe that you are winning the war.

Ebubeslym:
Russian military is a mess.

Reeks of long-term crass embezzlement of funds.

must be a good mess if less than 100k troups are giving a 600k military plus thousands of nationalist fighters such a hard time.

With the amount of western propaganda in March, one would have thought that the Russians would have retreated and Putin will be in handcuffs

Ukraine is winning the war

AJSfan:
must be a good mess if less than 100k troups are giving a 600k military plus thousands of nationalist fighters such a hard time.

With the amount of western propaganda in March, one would have thought that the Russians would have retreated and Putin will be in handcuffs

Russians did retreat and Putin is in both economic and military handcuffs to the extent he has been forced to change commanders and deploy 60,000 more troops since his war is failing

Igbofam:


Russians did retreat and Putin is in both economic and military handcuffs to the extent he has been forced to change commanders and deploy 60,000 more troops since his war is failing

Economic and Military handcuffs when NATO can't even agree on sanctions. The same Latvia that claimed they were gonna be the first to do without Russian gas has already entered a fresh 30 years contract with them

And why is Putin not being given the Sadam Hussein and Gaddafi treatment? What is so special about him that NATO can't storm Kremlin to go get him?

For reorganization of troups, Russia has definitely lost some fights but to say they have lost the war is disingenuous. As long as DPR, LPR, Mariupol and even Crimea are not under Ukraine control, with all the international support in personel and equipment, Russia is winning the war. Until the day they pull out the way USSR pulled out from Afghanistan, that is the day they lost.

Ukraine is winning, clowns

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AJSfan:
Economic and Military handcuffs when NATO can't even agree on sanctions. The same Latvia that claimed they were gonna be the first to do without Russian gas has already entered a fresh 30 years contract with them

And why is Putin not being given the Sadam Hussein and Gaddafi treatment? What is so special about him that NATO can't storm Kremlin to go get him?

For reorganization of troups, Russia has definitely lost some fights but to say they have lost the war is disingenuous. As long as DPR, LPR, Mariupol and even Crimea are not under Ukraine control, with all the international support in personel and equipment, Russia is winning the war. Until the day they pull out the way USSR pulled out from Afghanistan, that is the day they lost.

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Economic and Military handcuffs period.

You Russian bots always want to twist narrative and a paint a story that was never ever mentioned

Show me where I said Russia have lost the war? Always wanted to add salt and pepper when not needed

Igbofam:
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Economic and Military handcuffs period.

You Russian bots always want to twist narrative and a paint a story that was never ever mentioned

Show me where I said Russo have lost the war? Always wanted to add salt and pepper when not needed

you western asslickers always shy away from the truth that your almighty NATO is powerless against Russia. but it's okay, continue in your delusion.

I forgot, the EU and USA are in their own cuffs too

Western journalists filmed the serial number of Tochka-U that exploded at the train station in Kramatorsk. According to it, the ownership of the missile belongs to Ukrainian Armed Forces

AJSfan:
you western asslickers always shy away from the truth that your almighty NATO is powerless against Russia. but it's okay, continue in your delusion.

I forgot, the EU and USA are in their own cuffs too

Who is powerless here?

Remind me who has been threatening NATO that if they supply Ukraine with Weapons they would make themselves legitimate targets

Yet NATO countries are fearlessly sending Weapons to Ukraine yet Putin cannot cough again

Remind me who is sanctioning Russia anyhow with Russian response being to just ban them from coming to Russia

Who then is afraid of who? Even the smallest NATO country is sending weapons to Ukraine right under the nose of Russia but this werey is SAYING NATO is afraid of Russia

Your Russia is just a big bag of emptiness

rottennaija:
Western journalists filmed the serial number of Tochka-U that exploded at the train station in Kramatorsk. According to it, the ownership of the missile belongs to Ukrainian Armed Forces

Chai your common sense has evaporated.

So an open field is now the train station where the entire world saw where the parts of the bomb? �

Same bomb that Russian journalists reported when it was shot by their own soldiers and only began doctoring their stories when they saw the civilian casualties

Oshey Russian propagandist.

So suddenly Russia now BELIEVES Western journalists? What happened to Western propaganda?

You guys will keep shooting yourselves in the foot with your lies

Igbofam:


Who is powerless here?

Remind me who has been threatening NATO that if they supply Ukraine with Weapons they would make themselves legitimate targets

Yet NATO countries are fearlessly sending Weapons to Ukraine yet Putin cannot cough again

Remind me who is sanctioning Russia anyhow with Russian response being to just ban them from coming to Russia

Who then is afraid of who? Even the smallest NATO country is sending weapons to Ukraine right under the nose of Russia but this werey is SAYING NATO is afraid of Russia

Your Russia is just a big bag of emptiness

and NATO equipments have been struck..

Zelensky has been begging NATO for a no flight zone in his own country but guess what? the big bag of emptiness can only be fought via propaganda wars.

West has run out of sanctions now it is Putin children that are targets. If they have balls, they should move into Kremlin in same manner they have been moving into small countries. I wan check something

rottennaija:
Western journalists filmed the serial number of Tochka-U that exploded at the train station in Kramatorsk. According to it, the ownership of the missile belongs to Ukrainian Armed Forces

we know their level of desperation. Even the Bucha massacre was done by them to whip up sentiments

rottennaija:
Western journalists filmed the serial number of Tochka-U that exploded at the train station in Kramatorsk. According to it, the ownership of the missile belongs to Ukrainian Armed Forces

Oh wow! If this is true, I bet this won't get circulated hardly anywhere on the internet. damn!

Gnosis777:


Oh wow! If this is true, I bet this won't get circulated hardly anywhere on the internet. damn!

The news of this train bombing dying out in the western media

rottennaija:


The news of this train bombing dying out in the western media

Of course, not surprising at all.

AJSfan:
and NATO equipments have been struck..

Zelensky has been begging NATO for a no flight zone in his own country but guess what? the big bag of emptiness can only be fought via propaganda wars.

West has run out of sanctions now it is Putin children that are targets. If they have balls, they should move into Kremlin in same manner they have been moving into small countries. I wan check something

Stop deflecting so desperately. Of course NATO equipments GIVEN to Ukraine would be struck are they fighting with water pistols?

The fact here is that Russia who was threatening NATO with Nuclear repercussions and saying they would be legitimate targets has turned to a rain soaked chicken in the face of same NATO sending their weapons to Ukraine.

Why are you shouting about Zelenskyy? Is Ukraine a member of NATO?

Your comment was about NATO and now you shift goal post to Zelenskyy? Did you drop your sense and step on it by mistake?

Officers dying like fowls and Finland gearing up to join NATO

Inflation off the charts in Russia

Igbofam:


Stop deflecting so desperately. Of course NATO equipments GIVEN to Ukraine would be struck are they fighting with water pistols?

The fact here is that Russia who was threatening NATO with Nuclear repercussions and saying they would be legitimate targets has turned to a rain soaked chicken in the face of same NATO sending their weapons to Ukraine.

Why are you shouting about Zelenskyy? Is Ukraine a member of NATO?

Your comment was about NATO and now you shift goal post to Zelenskyy? Did you drop your sense and step on it by mistake?

You are the one deflecting here. I said Zelensky has been begging NATO to help Ukraine declare and enforce no flight zone. It is the rain soaked chicken that is afraid to heed that clarion call. Even the weapons they are giving Ukrainians are not even free, the president confirmed it.

Uncle Sam is notorious for invading small countries at the least provocation. Why is he so scared of invading the bear

AJSfan:
You are the one deflecting here. I said Zelensky has been begging NATO to help Ukraine declare and enforce no flight zone. It is the rain soaked chicken that is afraid to heed that clarion call. Even the weapons they are giving Ukrainians are not even free, the president confirmed it.

Uncle Sam is notorious for invading small countries at the least provocation. Why is he so scared of invading the bear

Read your first comment and stop desperately shifting goalposts.

What has Zelenskyy got to do with the mass killings of Russian Generals and the fact that Russian soldiers withdrew and changed their command due to their disappointing performance and massive losses in the war?

Why should USA invade Russia when she is already crippling her without involving her military or weapons?

Economic sanctions na your mate? Russia has been the one threatening everyone with attacks so why are they not attacking?

Igbofam:


Read your first comment and stop desperately shifting goalposts.

What has Zelenskyy got to do with the mass killings of Russian Generals and the fact that Russian soldiers withdrew and changed their command due to their disappointing performance and massive losses in the war?

Why should USA invade Russia when she is already crippling her without involving her military or weapons?

Economic sanctions na your mate? Russia has been the one threatening everyone with attacks so why are they not attacking?

ok probably I need to spoon feed you cos you won't get the point after the repetition.

The president of a sovereign nation gave the go ahead for NATO to take over the airspace. NATO has the permission but what do they do? Send weapons for other people to fight the bear

When last did you even hear Poland making noise like they were initially?

Last I checked, Ruble is now below the price it was before the invasion

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Prior to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, he thought he will not loss a soldier let alone generals.

This war shock, shocked and shocking Putin.

This stupid war is making people across the globe to begin to modify their previous view about the military superiority of Russia. Now it's unequivocally clear that she is nothing close to a world power. I for one will rate US far ahead of Russia in almost everything.