Ukraine is claiming that a Russian general was killed during a battle near Kharkiv, although the Pentagon had not yet confirmed the claim, The Hill reports.
Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov — a “chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Army of the Central Military District of Russia” was killed along with a “number of senior Russian army officers,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement Monday.
Ukraine’s statement, which did not say how or when Gerasimov was killed, said the military commander was a veteran of Russian campaigns in Chechnya, Syria and the annexation of Crimea.
Should it be accurate, Gerasimov’s death would make him the second Russian general killed in the now 13-day incursion into Ukraine.
Read the full report over at The Hill.
