• Major General Andrei Kolesnikov of the 29th Combined Arms Army is Russia's latest high profile casualty
• His death follows Major General Vitaly Gerasimov and Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky
• Comes as care home for disabled near Kharkiv, north east Ukraine, hit by Russian shelling, local officials say
• 63 of the home's 330 residents have been evacuated, whilst fate of other 267 is currently unknown
• Came after Dnipro was hit in the early hours with strikes that destroyed a shoe factory and killed a civilian
• But Ukrainian forces have been striking back, capturing five towns near besieged city of Chernihiv

A third Russian general has been killed in Ukraine in just eight days in another devastating blow to Vladimir Putin's savage invasion of Ukraine.

Major General Andrei Kolesnikov of the 29th Combined Arms Army became the latest high profile casualty of the war today, Ukraine's government announced.

There are believed to be 20 Russian generals taking part in the faltering invasion, which has also seen the loss of 173 tanks, 12 aircraft and 345 troop carriers.

Western officials said the multiple general casualties suggest they are having to move to the front because Russia's troops are either unable to make their own decisions or are fearful of moving forward.

Kolesnikov's death comes four days after the killing of Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, the first deputy commander of Russia's 41st army.

The general took part in the second Chechen war, the Russian military operation in Syria, and the annexation of Crimea, winning medals from those campaigns.

According to reports, Gerasimov was the son of Valery Gerasimov - the Chief of General Staff of Russia's armed forces.

And last week, Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, was killed.

Sukhovetsky died during a special operation in Ukraine, his comrade-in-arms Sergey Chipilev wrote on social media.

He was shot and killed by a sniper near Mariupol, which has been under a brutal siege by Russian forces for days.

Experts have said they are baffled by the ineptitude of the tactics employed by Russia's armies after drone footage yesterday showed a column of tanks getting picked off one-by-one in an ambush by Ukraine's forces.

Analysts have said Russian tank commanders allowed the Ukrainians to gun down their unit by driving down the middle of a main road leading into Kyiv - and straight into a death trap. Putin's forces have now lost more tanks than are operational in entire German army.

Ukraine's masterful ambush in Brovary piled on the misery of Moscow's invading forces, which has suffered more losses than expected and are now facing freezing temperatures in the coming days. Morale is said to be low.

While reports said Russia's 6th tank regiment escaped with relatively minimal casualties, Russian commander Colonel Andrei Zakharov was reportedly killed, and his unit forced into a retreat. The smouldering wrecks of Russian tanks lay on streets after the fighting.

Defence experts have been left stunned by Russia's military tactics.

Franz-Stefan Gady - an analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies - said the 'fight shows the danger of not securing urban terrain with adequate infantry plus recon. assets when main elements of a force pass through urban terrain ideally suitable for ambushes.'

Rob Lee, a Senior Fellow and military expert at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, commented on the ambush, saying the Russian armoured force displayed 'very poor tactics'.

The Russian column was 'on an obvious avenue of approach, and they still decided to bunch up like this, leaving them more vulnerable to indirect fire,' he wrote on Twitter, while sharing drone footage of the strikes.

Of the Russian military activities in Ukraine, a former British army commander told The Daily Telegraph today: 'This is not the Russian army we trained to fight'.

It comes as Russia continued their barbaric assault today by blowing up a disabled care home near the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials have said, just 48 hours after shelling women as they gave birth in a maternity hospital.

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Totilopussylick:
And non general from Ukraine has been killed since the invasion

PrinceOfLagos:
Russian forces are over rated

This war has exposed them

PrinceOfLagos:
Russian forces are over rated

This war has exposed them

Aside Nuclear weapon, Russia military is overrated, they are still using outdated Soviet union warplanes and outdated war equipments, their cruise missiles have been misfiring and destroying, civilian house, schools, monuments, hospitals, and even hitting nuclear plants.

Totilopussylick:
And non general from Ukraine has been killed since the invasion

BKayy:

Russia has taken full control of three cities and a nuclear plant.

They will win this without recording any victory on Social media.

Pray not to have a friend like the West.

PrinceOfLagos:
Russian forces are over rated

This war has exposed them

ChangetheChange:

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It is no longer surprising for any sane human being except deluded Putin Nairalanders, that Putin is now begging middle east terrorists groups/jihadists from Iran and Syria to come and help Russia fight in Ukraine, since the Russian Army has been decimated and can no take over Ukraine in 48 hours , as promised by Putin two week ago.[/b]

NOETHNICITY:
You folks know nothing about warfare
Most of u expect Russia to overrun ukraine like the USA overran Iraq. But you forget that Russia is dealing with a highly US trained and well equiped Ukrainian force. Since the post ukrainian 2014 coup the US and it's western allies have been training and arming ukrainian military. Intel sources revealed that a week before the Russians invaded about 50 planes from western countries arrived ukraine loaded with heavy weapons. Second, Ukraine is a modern well equiped european state far more advanced compared to Iraq.
Third, Russian military have been very lenient with ukrainian forces given they are trying to avoid too many collateral damage as they still see ukrainians as thier brothers. Unlike the US that adopts the approach of carpet bombing as it's military attacking style.

OFFICIAL336:
Western propaganda!! according to Putin lapdog.

But they forgot Russians are one of the best in propagandist warefare and misinformation.

NOETHNICITY:
You folks know nothing about warfare
Most of u expect Russia to overrun ukraine like the USA overran Iraq. But you forget that Russia is dealing with a highly US trained and well equiped Ukrainian force. Since the post ukrainian 2014 coup the US and it's western allies have been training and arming ukrainian military. Intel sources revealed that a week before the Russians invaded about 50 planes from western countries arrived ukraine loaded with heavy weapons. Second, Ukraine is a modern well equiped european state far more advanced compared to Iraq.
[s]Third, Russian military have been very lenient with ukrainian forces given they are trying to avoid too many collateral damage as they still see ukrainians as thier brothers. Unlike the US that adopts the approach of carpet bombing as it's military attacking style[/s].

izenco2005:
every news na propaganda for ur eyes, kids everywhere

Totilopussylick:
And non general from Ukraine has been killed since the invasion