Russian general said killed in Ukraine

Russian propagandists have reported the alleged killing of Major General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, in Ukraine.

The statement came from Latvia-based Russian media outlet Meduza, which cites Russian military bloggers, and Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Anatolii Shtefan on Facebook.

There is no evidence to support this information. The Russian Ministry of Defence has not commented on this, Ukrainska Pravda reports.

The Russians report that Goryachev, in charge of the headquarters of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation, has been killed in a missile attack.

A Ukrainian officer said that the Ukrainian troops killed Goryachev and a number of senior officers of the headquarters of the Russian 35th Combined Arms Army on the night of 13 June.

Goryachev led the Russian military contingent in Transnistria and commanded an army base in Tajikistan and a training centre in the Russian city of Khabarovsk.