Three Russian commanders killed in Ukraine

Three Senior Russian commanders have been killed in Ukraine after they felt the need to move to the frontline in order to gain control of operations, a Western official has said.

At least three senior Russian commanders are believed to have been killed, one by sniper fire.

“It is surprising that those have been killed but not surprising that they’ve had the need to go further forward in order to bring some order and intervene in the Russian attack because it has stalled in some areas so badly,” the official said.

“I’m unsurprised that Russian commanders have felt the need to go forward to impose their personality in order to bring some impetus to operations.”

The official added: “Russian doctrine has an approach where what you do is you re-enforce success and you move on and isolate when you have failed.

“They have continued to re-enforce failure. Hammering away at the same objective, perhaps defined as madness.”