{"id":9130,"date":"2023-10-31T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:30:17","slug":"russian-major-general-killed-in-ukrainian-missile-strike-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=9130","title":{"rendered":"Russian Major-General killed in Ukrainian missile strike, says official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a big improvement, a high-ranking Russian officer has reportedly been killed throughout a Ukrainian missile strike, as Kyiv continues its counteroffensive towards Russian forces. According to Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-backed official in Ukraine, Major-General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of Russia\u2019s 35th Army, was killed in the southern Zaporizhia region on the frontlines where Ukrainian forces have been regaining control.<br\/>The Russian Defence Ministry has not but confirmed the information of Goryachev\u2019s demise. The 52-year-old Major-General had a distinguished profession, having fought within the Second Chechen War, commanded a tank brigade, overseen a Russian military base in Tajikistan, and led Russian forces in Moldova\u2019s pro-Russian region of Transdniestria.<br\/>The demise of Goryachev, as reported by Russian warfare correspondent and military blogger \u201cVoenkor Z,\u201d would mark the first Russian senior officer killed in Ukraine in nearly a year. Rogov expressed his condolences on his official Telegram channel, stating: \u201cThe army has lost considered one of its brightest and best military commanders, who mixed the highest professionalism with private courage. Deepest and most honest condolences to the family and pals of the deceased!\u201d<br\/>In related  <a href=\"http:\/\/xn--12c7bhd2bf1a3fo3u3a.com\">Try before you buy<\/a> , Russian President Vladimir Putin met with 18 distinguished Russian military bloggers and warfare correspondents in an effort to strengthen his narrative of the war\u2019s optimistic progress in Ukraine. This meeting occurred amidst growing discontent within the Russian info area, following drone assaults on Russian territory and border incursions by pro-Ukrainian however Russian armed teams.<br\/>The Washington, DC-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) famous that Russian \u201cmilbloggers\u201d who have been more important of Putin\u2019s struggle efforts weren&#8217;t invited to the dialogue. The ISW believes that \u201cPutin is in all probability going setting info conditions to forestall potential traces of attack in opposition to the Kremlin in the event of Russian failure\u201d in Ukraine. Furthermore, the ISW suggests that Putin\u2019s engagement with these military bloggers indicates that the Kremlin could more and more depend on the ultranationalist community to maintain help for the war effort..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big improvement, a high-ranking Russian officer has reportedly been killed throughout a Ukrainian missile strike, as Kyiv continues its counteroffensive towards Russian forces. According to Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-backed official in Ukraine, Major-General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of Russia\u2019s 35th Army, was killed in the southern Zaporizhia region on the frontlines where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}