Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - A top Russian commander has been seriously injured on the battleground in Ukraine, according to new information from Russian officials.
Lt.-Gen. Esedulla Abachev, a leading commander in the
Leningrad Military District, has been at the front since the beginning of the
war, said Sergei Melikov, the head of the Russian republic of Dagestan.
“He has held several important commanding positions, but has
always been at the very front, at the most responsible and therefore most
dangerous sections of the front,” Melikov wrote on Telegram.
He did not provide further details on Abachev’s condition but
confirmed that the 57-year-old was receiving treatment in “one of the best
military hospitals in the country.”
According to Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR),
several of the general’s limbs had to be amputated following injuries sustained
in a HUR strike on a military column in the western Russian region of Kursk.
So far, at least 12 Russian generals have been killed since
Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Leningrad Military District was re-established in 2024 on
the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin and encompasses all regions of
north-western Russia up to the Ural Mountains. Its name refers to the
Soviet-era name for St. Petersburg.
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