Five senior officers, including the commander and the chief of staff of a motorized rifle division, were eliminated in Ukraine on July 9. This fact was confirmed by the Council of Veterans of the Volgograd oblast, - local russian media write.
Commander of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division Alexey Gorobets and chief of staff Sergey Kens, as well as three deputy division commanders: Sergey Avramchenko, Kanat Mukatov and Yevgeniy Vyrodov, were among the dead.
As OstroV reported, on July 11, the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed about the liquidation of three representatives of the command of the occupation forces. In addition to Sergey Kens, the message also mentioned the names of deputy commander for logistics of the 106th division, Colonel Sergey Kuzminov and chief of staff of the 16th separate special forces brigade, Major Dmitriy Semionov. Thus, taking into account the new data presented by russian journalists, it can be reliably stated that as a result of the successful actions of the AFU in Ukraine on July 9, seven russian representatives of the command of the occupation forces were destroyed.