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The Sniper of the Armed Forces killed the commander of the parachute-depository regiment

According to journalists, the occupier who arrived from Kostroma was eliminated during reconnaissance. It is known that the Armed Forces destroyed the command of the 331st Parachute Regiment at the end of March. The sniper of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces) was liquidated by the commander of the 331st Parachut-Destant Regiment of the Airborne Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Ivan Pozdeev. A source in Ukrainian intelligence said this. Read the best materials of the section "Focus.

Military Focus" on Facebook, the occupier was killed on July 28 during exploration. He arrived from the military unit of 71211 the city of Kostroma. The regiment belongs to the 88 paratrooper division of the Western Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the intelligence officers specified. Some units of the 331 parachute regiment, according to the interlocutor, were observed in the area of ​​the village of Arkhangelsk Kherson region in the Kryvyi Rih direction.

It should be noted that the Russian military agencies and the media did not write about the appointment of a new commander of the 331th parachute regiment of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The destruction of the entire command of this regiment in Ukraine was known on March 29. The Armed Forces was liquidated at that time the regiment commander, Colonel Sergei Sukharev, who directed the execution of the Armed Forces column near Ilovaysk in August-September 2014.

Who was replaced by Pozdeev from the destroyed command of the invaders was not told in intelligence. The Air Force radio station reported that the 331st parachute regiment participated in the first and second Chechen campaigns and the 5-day war in South Ossetia in 2008. In 2014, 10 Kostroma paratroopers were captured near Ilovaysk, they stormed the city without distinctive signs.

The military command of the Russian Federation then denied the participation of regular troops in the fighting in eastern Ukraine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that these paratroopers "got lost during the exercises and accidentally crossed the border. " After the summer exercises in 2017, the Russian Secretary of Defense Sergey Shoigu gave the regiment the title of "shock".