INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The commander of an elite Russian airborne unit has been killed in Ukraine, a Kremlin-backed military official in eastern Ukraine's
Republic, announced the death of Russian Colonel Andrei Kondrashkin on the messaging app Telegram, adding that the killed colonel headed
31st Guards Air Assault Brigade to be killed in Ukraine since the February 2022 invasion.His predecessor, Colonel Sergei Karasev, was among
outside Kyiv.Nearly 2,000 Russian paratroopers, including 340 officers, have died in the nearly 19-month invasion of Ukraine,according to a