Ukrainian forces allegedly eliminate senior Russian military commander
Major General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the Russian 35th Combined Arms Army, has been killed in Ukraine, Russian state media reported early on June 13, although no official sources have independently confirmed this claim.
Russian media sources cited anonymous "milbloggers" (military bloggers) alleging "intense fighting along almost the entire front line of the Eastern grouping" — especially around Vremivka Ridge on the Donetsk–Zaporizhzhya Oblast border.
"As a result of an enemy missile attack, the Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, Major General Sergei Goryachev, was killed," Russian propagandist Yuriy Kotyonok reported on Telegram.
Ukrainian military correspondent Andriy Tsapliienko argues that if this information is true, Goryachev is "one of the highest-ranking military commanders who have been killed by Ukrainian troops since the beginning of the Russian invasion." The propagandists themselves call him "one of the brightest and most effective military leaders of the highest professionalism.”
Yuriy Butusov, editor-in-chief of news outlet Censor.NET, said that the information about the liquidation was "officially recognized by Russian sources.”
"The enemy's control has been severely degraded as a result of the strike," he added.
“Russian propagandists for the first time recognized the precarious position of several of their military units in the wake of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.”
Goryachev at various times headed the contingent of the Russian military in Transnistria, commanded the motorized rifle brigade of the Western Military District of the Russian Federation, and the 201st military base in Tajikistan.
At the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian officer was the commander of the 5th Tank Brigade. Then Goryachev was promoted to the rank of Major General and appointed Chief of Staff of the 35th Army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.
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