Lt. Gen. Oleg Tsokov died Monday when a barrage of cruise missiles obliterated the Dune Hotel in Berdiansk in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, where Russian military commanders had been quartered.
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“It is reported that today in the Berdiansk area, the Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Yuriyovych Tsokov was liquidated,” Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol, gleefully wrote in his Telegram channel. …
Although Russia’s Defense Ministry has not officially confirmed the military leader’s death, Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma — Russia’s legislative assembly — corroborated multiple media reports from both Ukrainian outlets and pro-Moscow military bloggers.
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