Colonel Sergei Postnov had been on active duty with Russian
forces close to Kyiv, in Kharkiv as well as more recently in the Luhansk
region, and was killed on a combat mission
Colonel Sergey Postnov, of the Russian National Guard, was killed in Ukraine (Image: social media/ /east2west news)
By
Will StewartRussia Correspondent
Graeme
MurrayNews Reporter
11:40, 15 Jun 2022
UPDATED11:42, 15 Jun 2022
Vladimir
Putin has lost his 53rd colonel in the war in Ukraine as yet another
high-ranking Russian commander
has died.
Colonel Sergei Postnov was killed on a combat mission
earlier this week, according to reports.
He was part of a military propaganda unit in the Russian
National Guard, which reports directly to Putin.
He had been on active duty with Russian forces close to
Kyiv, in Kharkiv as well as more recently in the Luhansk region.
It is unclear exactly how and where he was killed.
An official statement said that his life was “cut short”
while on a mission in Ukraine.
Colonel Sergey Postnov pictured with his wife Ekaterina and daughter (Image:
social media /east2west news)
It said he had “performed service and combat missions in the
zone of the special military operation in Ukraine” from the start of Putin’s
active campaign on February 24.
“He was distinguished by high professionalism, organisation
and diligence, and a creative approach to solving problems,” said the Russian
Interior Ministry’s council of veterans.
He was a graduate of the Yekaterinburg Suvorov Military
School in 1997, and believed to be in his 40s.
His death was the latest in a huge toll of Russian top brass
to be wiped out in Putin’s war in Ukraine.
He is the 53rd colonel known to have died, while a minimum
of 11 generals have also been slain.
Overall Russian losses are believed to be in excess of
30,000.
Postnov leaves behind a widow Ekaterina and daughter.
Last month The Mirror told how two more Russian colonels had
been killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine - including
the country’s “best paratroop commander”.
He is the latest to have died in the Ukraine invasion (Image: veteran.caovd.ru/ /east2west news)
Lt-Col Alexander Dosyagayev, 34, was a commander of an
airborne assault battalion of the 104th paratrooper regiment.
Troops from his 104th air assault regiment were reportedly
in Bucha, which was the scene of alleged rape and torture atrocities by Vladimir Putin ’s
forces earlier in the
war.
His battalion based in Pskov had been recognised as the best
in Russia in
checks on combat training and military discipline.
Postnov leaves behind a widow Ekaterina and daughter (Image: social media/ /east2west news)
At the military festival ‘Army of Russia-2021’, he was
judged the winner of the Winged Infantry category.
Russian media outlet Mediazona confirmed the death of
another colonel killed earlier in the war which has not been announced.
Col Vladimir Ivanov, 41, has been labelled a “propagandist”
by the Ukrainian media because he served in the Russian defence ministry’s
department of Information and Mass Communication.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-loses-yet-another-27238317
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