40 soldiers including VLADIMIR PUTIN’s 56th colonel were killed after being struck by US-supplied missiles.
Col. Andrei Vasilyev, a paratrooper commander, was purportedly killed in the attack on Friday night.
According to sources, as the war continues, more Kremlin objectives have been hit by a recently delivered US medium range HIMARS missile.
If true, his demise was one of the first caused by the new 43-mile-range weaponry that President Joe Biden deployed to the Ukraine.
Vasilyev was supposedly in an advanced command post of the airborne assault soldiers of the Russian army, though the exact location was not given.
He oversaw the Ryazan-based 137th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 106th Guards Airborne Division.
He was married and had a daughter, and among other distinctions, he had received the Russian Order of Courage.
Late last week, the first HIMARS missiles were launched in Ukraine, as seen on video.
If this was the attack that murdered Vasilyev on Friday, it is unclear.
According to Ukraine, a separate HIMARS attack on Izyum in the Kharkiv region damaged a Russian command post, killing or injuring more than 40 people.
Lt-Col Sergey Gundorov, 51, was the 55th colonel to pass away. His helicopter was spotted crashing in a fiery inferno close to Volnovakha in the Donbas after being hit by a mobile surface-to-air missile.
His damaged Mi-35 touched down before cartwheeling over a small patch of forest and collapsing in a field of flames.
Additionally, Putin has lost at least 11 generals.
Russian losses are estimated to have exceeded 30,000 overall, with some estimates being closer to 50,000.
And on Monday, it had been 124 days since Putin’s forces occupied Ukraine.
Despite the HIMARS airstrike’s success, Ukraine is still under heavy fire as new attacks are being launched towards Kyiv.
Just hours after Putin hurried to a last-minute late-night meeting in the Kremlin, Russian missiles recently poured down on the capital, killing at least one person.
The attack on Kyiv is just one of 48 cruise missiles that were fired at civilian targets all around Ukraine.
The attacks on Friday night were concentrated in the nearby eastern cities of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, the latter of which is currently fully occupied by Russia.
Additionally, on Friday night, rockets impacted residential areas, civic infrastructure, and military bases in the northeast, including the settlement of Andriivka.
Additional assaults kept coming down on Kharkiv as Kremlin forces carried out
The latest assault comes in response to rumours that Putin had been preparing a new televised statement on the conflict in Ukraine and tensions with the West during their enigmatic late-night meeting on Saturday.
While world leaders gathered for the annual G7 talks, Justin Trudeau of Canada and Boris Johnson made fun of Vladimir Putin.
