Vladimir Putin has lost a senior FSB secret services commander believed to be the most senior operative in the feared Russian group to have been killed amid the war in Ukraine.
Lt Col Nikolay Gorban, 36, is the 99th known colonel or lieutenant-colonel to be killed in the devastating conflict.
It comes as the latest blow to the Russian President, after a missile took out his first female colonel, Olga ‘Kursa’ Kachura just last week.
