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Strike on Donetsk killed at least 20 Russian officers, including seven colonels
As a result of a Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk on 26 August, at least 20 Russian officers were killed, including seven colonels.
The names of the Russian servicemen were established by Mediazona.
On 26 August, the Russian appointee in the occupied part of Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, claimed that Ukrainian forces attacked the city with missiles, allegedly injuring eight civilians.
However, Ukrainian OSINT projects stated that the strike hit a building on Illich Avenue, 97, and an underground parking garage with 600 parking spaces beneath an unfinished residential complex — both sites were used as command posts by the Russian army.
Already on 27 August, the General Staff of Ukraine reported the destruction of the main and backup command posts of the Russian army.
According to Mediazona, 20 of the deceased officers served in the headquarters of the 'Center' group of forces, including the headquarters of the Central Military District (CMD) and the headquarters of 41 combined-arms army. 18 of them died that same day, and the other two later from their wounds.
Thus, among the servicemen, according to state registers and public obituaries, three colonels, a lieutenant colonel and four majors were killed. In particular, they include:
Colonel Artem Berdyugin, aged 38, head of the planning and coordination section of the intelligence directorate;
Colonel Oleksandr Kalyanov, aged 50, head of the special reconnaissance section of the intelligence directorate;
Colonel Serhii Lehkyi, aged 47, deputy chief of radio-electronic warfare forces of the radio-electronic warfare troops directorate;
Lieutenant Colonel Yurii Zhigalov, aged 39, head of the joint training and arms cooperation section of the organizational-planning department of the combat training directorate;
Major Serhii Lykov, aged 37, officer of the operations department of the headquarters of the missile troops and artillery directorate;
Major Viacheslav Latyshev, aged 41, officer of the liaison and directions section of the operations department of the engineering troops directorate;
Major Dmytro Ovcharenko, aged 34, head of the engineering training section for combined-arms formations and military units of the troop training department of the engineering troops directorate;
Major Anton Shcherbanev, aged 36, officer of the planning and coordination section of the intelligence directorate.
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the 41 combined-arms army, three colonels, three lieutenant colonels, a major, a captain and a senior lieutenant were killed:
Colonel Serhii Laptev, aged 48, head of department — deputy chief of staff of the operations department;
Colonel Vasyl Latyshev, aged 55, chief of staff — deputy chief of missile troops and artillery of the staff of the missile troops and artillery department;
Colonel Yevhen Tymkin, aged 39, head of the engineering troops department;
Lieutenant Colonel Artem Akimov, aged 42, deputy chief of troops of the air defense department;
Lieutenant Colonel Andrii Moiseyenko, aged 42, senior officer of the management organization section of the operations department of the army staff;
Lieutenant Colonel Rustam Fakhrutdinov, aged 43, head of intelligence — deputy chief of staff for intelligence of the intelligence and automated command and control systems section of the staff of the missile troops and artillery department;
Major Oleh Berezovskyi, aged 34, information security officer of the section for organizing secrecy regime and protecting information from unauthorized access on computing facilities of the State Secret Protection Service;
Captain Kyrylo Polozkov, aged 28, officer of the intelligence department;
Senior Lieutenant Oleh Holubenko, aged 26, officer of the intelligence and automated command and control systems section of the staff of the missile troops and artillery department.
Regarding the exact postings of three other deceased — Colonel Andrii Selianskyi, Lieutenant Colonel Denys Pavlov and Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Basenko — the data could not be confirmed.
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