“As a result of the strike, Salim Pashtov, deputy commander of the 810th Marine Brigade, was probably killed”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
As specified on December 26 in Strathcom, as a result of the strike, “the deputy commander of the brigade and 17 other servicemen, most of whom are staff officers, probably died.”
The Ukrainian military command stated that the building where the command post of the Russian 810th brigade was located was partially destroyed.
The editorial staff of Radio Svoboda cannot independently verify this data.
According to the RFE/RL project, Salim Pashtov, the deputy commander of the 810th Marine Brigade, was probably killed as a result of an attack by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Initially, this became known from the message of the sister of the deceased deputy commander on the VKontakte social network. On December 26, this information was confirmed by the Armed Forces.
On December 25, acting governor of the Kursk region Oleksandr Khinshtein accused the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of firing rockets at civilian objects and infrastructure in the city of Lhova. Later, he added that as a result of the strike, three people died on the spot, another wounded person later died in the hospital. Five people were injured, one woman is in serious condition. Khinshtein did not report on the probable losses among the Russian military.
On December 25, the Armed Forces reported an attack on the location of the command post of the Russian 810th separate brigade of marines, which was located in an abandoned civilian building in the settlement of Lgovy.
“This fire damage is part of a comprehensive campaign to weaken the capabilities of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to coordinate military operations against the people of Ukraine,” Stratkom explained at the time.
Lhov is a city in the Kursk region with a population of almost 17,000 people, located near the border with Ukraine. The evacuation of the civilian population from this settlement was not carried out.
After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian regions and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine regularly come under shelling and drone attacks. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports on downed missiles and drones. Kyiv mostly does not comment on these messages.