We have seen so many top level Russian officers die in Ukraine,
I decided to build a running tally, as it seems they are losing too many commanders to continue effectively. Being that they are a top heavy structure, this becomes as big as impediment as supply lines.
This is not built to be a morbid fascination.
Feel free to let me know if I need any changes
First we need to know the structure, with a current tally in parenthesis (N=22)
1st Marshal of the Russian Federation
2nd Army general or Admiral of the fleet
3rd Colonel general or Admiral
4th Lieutenant general or Vice Admiral (N=2)
5th Major General or Counter Admiral (N=4)
6th Colonel or Captain 1st rank (N=10)
7th Lieutenant colonel or Captain 2nd rank (N=4)
I have included two commanders from Chechen and DPR units
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Igor Zharov
March 31st
Lieutenant Colonel
Chief of Staff of 331st Airborne Regiment
Source: Confirmed
Igor Zharov was one of six members of the VDV’s 331st Airborne Regiment to be buried in Russia this week.
The 331st Airborne was led by Sukharev, who was confirmed dead on the 17th. The Regiment has been effectively wiped out in the Donbas
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Sergei Sukharev
March 17th
Colonel
Commander of 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment
Source: confirmed
Colonel Sergei Sukharev and his deputy Major Sergei Krylov were killed in battle in Ukraine, according to Russian state TV. Sukharev was a leading Russian paratroop commander who's regiment fought against Ukraine outside the city Ilovaisk in Donbas back in 2014. Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko said that Sukharev was "directly responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre of 2014."
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Magomed Tushaev
February 27th
General/Chechen Warlord
Commander of Chechen Special Forces
Source: Ukraine Ministry of Defense
Tushaev was reported to have been killed in a battle in Ukraine after a 56 tank convoy of Chechen tanks were destroyed near Hostomel, according to The Daily Mail.
Forces from Russia's Chechnya region have been supporting Putin in his invasion of Ukraine.
Another warlord reported killed is Vladimir Zhonga, who led the Sparta Battalion, a Neo-Nazi military unit that has the Kremlin's backing.
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Andrei Sukhovetsky
February 28th
Major General
Commanding General of 7th Airborne
Deputy Commander of 41st Combined
Source: Russian Confirmation
Sukhovetsky was killed in combat in Ukraine on February 28th. According to Ukrainian sources, he was shot by a sniper. It could have come when landing at Hostomel Airport or when walking in front of the infamous stalled convoy.
His death was first reported by Andrey Terekhov, a retired Russian intelligence officer, on Twitter on 1 March
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Viktor Isaikin
March 1st
Colonel
Commander of 150th Motorized Rifle Division
Source: confirmed
Artem Zdunov, who heads Russia's Mordovian Republic, reported the death of Russian Colonel Viktor Isaikin. Zdunov said that Colonel Isaikin was sent to Ukraine on a “military assignment.”
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Vladimir Zhoga
March 5th
Colonel (Separatist DPR)
Commander of Sparta Battalion
Source: confirmed
A leader of a rebel military group in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), blamed for brutal war crimes and shooting Ukrainian POWs since its formation in 2014, was shot dead in battle. Russian warlord Zhoga, who headed the Neo-Nazi Sparta Battalion, was killed in Volnovakha.
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Vitaly Gerasimov
March 7th
Major General
1st Deputy Commander of 41st Army
Source: Ukrainian Intelligence
Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov became the second senior Russian commander killed after Ukrainian military intelligence claimed he was shot dead in Kharkiv. The defense ministry released intercepted audio of what it said were two Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, officers discussing the death.
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Dmitry Safronov
March 7th
Lieutenant Colonel
Commander of 61st Marine Brigade
Source: Ukranian Defense Ministry
Ukraine said that Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov was killed during fighting when Ukrainian forces recaptured the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv region. He will be one of five top commanders to be killed on this day.
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Denis Glebov
March 7th
Lieutenant Colonel
Deputy Commander of 11th Separate Airborne
Source: Confirmed by Russia
In the same statement announcing Safronov's death, Ukraine said that Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov, had also been killed.
Russian news outlets reported that Glebov was killed while taking part in a special operation in Donbas and was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
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Yuri Agarkov
March 7th
Lieutenant Colonel
Commander of 33rd Motorized Rifle
Source: Confirmed by governor of Pskov
Guard Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov died alongside Konstantin Zizevsky, according to the same Instagram post by Mikhail Vedernikov, the governor of the Pskov Region.
Agarkov had previously served as the 56th Air Assault Brigade chief of staff and commanded a motorized rifle regiment, according to a report in the Russian media.
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Konstantin Zizevsky
March 7th
Colonel
Commander of 247th Guard Air Assault
Source: Confirmed by governor of Pskov
Konstantin Zizevsky was reported to have been killed during a military operation to "protect the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics." His death was confirmed in an Instagram post by Mikhail Vedernikov, the governor of the Pskov Region.
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Andrei Zakharov
March 10th
Colonel
Commander of unspecified Tank Regiment
Source: Ukraine
Andrei Zakharov was killed in an ambush on a Russian armored column in a suburb of Kyiv
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Andrey Kolesnikov
March 11th
Major General
Commander of 29th Combined
Source: Ukraine
Kolesnikov took part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was killed, according to the Ukrainian officials, on March 11th. While NATO officials have confirmed that a Russian commander from Russia's eastern military district became the third Russian general officer to be killed in the hostilities, no name has been specified.
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Sergei Porokhnya
March 13th
Colonel
Commander of 12th Engineer Brigade
Source: confirmed
Sergei Porokhnya, based in Ufa, was reportedly killed in Ukraine.
Russian outlet KP-Ufa reported that the colonel was killed during a "special operation" in Ukraine, which was confirmed by some of his Russian colleagues on social media.
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Oleg Mityaev
March 15th
Major General
Commander of Russia's 150th Motorized Rifle Division
Source: Azov Battalion (confirmed by photo)
Russia reportedly lost its fourth general after Maj. Gen. Oleg Mityaev who was killed during the Russian assault on the city of Mariupol, Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine's Interior Ministry, wrote on Telegram. Ukrainian troops were able to intercept a call by a Russian general and kill him, according to The New York Times.
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Andrei Mordvichev
March 16th
Lieutenant General
Commander the 8th General Army of the Southern Military District
Source: Ukraine
Russian Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev died as a result of enemy fire, the general staff of the Ukrainian army said on Twitter. The general was reportedly killed when Ukraine struck the airfield in Chornobayivka, near Kherson Airport, which is being used as a temporary Russian base.
The Kremlin has not confirmed the general's death.
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Igor Nikolaev
March 20th
Colonel
Commander of 3rd Motorized Rifle Division
Source: governor of Ryazan
The death of Colonel Igor Nikolaev was confirmed by the governor of Ryazan, reportedly in Kharkiv. Nikolaev was reportedly the commander of the 252nd Motorized Rifle Regiment (3rd Motorized Rifle Division)
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Andrei Paly
March 19th
Captain, 1st Rank
Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet
Source: Russian confirmed
“Captain 1st Rank Andrei Nikolayevich Paly was killed in the fighting to liberate Mariupol from Ukrainian Nazis,” the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev says on Telegram.
“He was from Ukraine and sold out his country to die like a punk-ass for a Nazi kleptocracy”, says everybody else
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Nikolay Ovcharenko
March 20th
Colonel
Chief of the Western Military District Engineer Troops
Source: Ukraine
Colonel Ovcharenko, part of the 1st Guards Tank Army, reportedly died in a Ukrainian attack near the eastern town of Izyum. He was monitoring a pontoon bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River when he was killed in an ambush that reportedly killed 18 Russians and wounded 46.
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Alexei Sharov
March 22nd
Colonel
Commander of 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade Marines
Source: Ukraine
Colonel Alexei Sharov was reported to have been killed by Ukrainian forces in the besieged southern city of Mariupol. His death was reported by Odesa military administration spokesman Sergey Bratchuk on Telegram post, along with several Ukrainian news outlets including Ukrinform.
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Yuri Medvedev
March 25th
Colonel
Commander of 37th Motor Brigade
Source: Ukraine
A Russian brigade commander in Ukraine has died after being run down with a tank by his own mutinous troops, it was revealed today. Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out after his Brigade suffered huge losses.
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Yakov Rezantsev
March 25th
Lieutenant General
Commander of 49th Combined
Source: Kyiv Independent
Ukraine said it killed on Russia’s highest-ranking officials, Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezantsev, The Kyiv Independent's Illia Ponomarenko reported. Russia has not confirmed.
Rezantsev had previously boasted that the invasion of Ukraine would be over in hours.
He died on the same airfield as Mordvichev above.
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Unknown Commander
March 26th
TBD
Commander of 13th Tank Regiment of the 4th Division
Source: Ukraine
This one may not stay. Somebody mentioned below that a commander had killed himself because the vehicles the unit had in reserve were un-serviceable. The estimates were that he discovered 90% of his tanks could not be used. This seems potentially true and has multiple references in Twitter and Media. But he is unnamed and unconfirmed. And the location of the 13th/4th is never named, which is the most dubious part.
For now he is not counted in the tally as we don’t know his rank.
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