Russia announced on Saturday that General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov was buried in Saint Petersburg after being killed in Ukraine.
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The news was released by Russian news agency TASS, which said General Frolov was fighting in the Donbass region. He was the deputy commander of the Russian 8th Army.
In doing so, Russia would now have lost a total of eight generals in combat since the invasion began in late February.
“Vladimir Petrovich Frolov had a heroic death in battle against Ukrainian nationalists. He sacrificed his life so that the children, women and elderly people of Donbass would never hear bomb explosions again. Let them stop waiting for death and leave their homes saying goodbye as if it were the last time,” St. Petersburg Mayor Alexander Beglov said in a statement.
Since the beginning of the war, several analysts have questioned the tactics employed by the Russian army which exposed several of its generals near the front lines, leading to the death of several of them. Some of these veterans already had combat experience, through the Russian campaigns in Syria or Georgia.