Ukraine claims to have killed a second Russian general, Vitaly Gerasimov

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Intelligence Services

have reported that Russian General

was killed in the fighting in the city of

, which would make him the second general the Russian army has lost in Ukraine in a week.

The intelligence arm of the

said Major General

, chief of staff of the 41st Army, had been killed outside

the eastern

, along with other high-ranking officers. .

The ministry also broadcast what it claimed was a conversation between two Russian FSB officers who discussed the death and complained that their secure communications were no longer working inside Ukraine,

newspaper reports .

Gerasimov

participated in the Second

War , the Russian military operation in Syria, and the annexation of

, earning several medals for those campaigns.

If confirmed,

would be the second Russian general from the 41st Army to die within a week in

's invasion of

.

In early March, Russian media confirmed that his deputy commander, Major General

, had been killed.

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