A devastating new blow has been dealt to Vladimir Putin with the loss of his ninth general killed during the course of the war in Ukraine.
Major-General Andrei Simonov, 55, was killed in battle in Izyum near Kharkov, the country’s second city, according to Ukrainian sources.
He was Russia ’s most respected electronics warfare commander, serving with the 2nd Combined Arms Army, and died in a devastating fightback by the Ukrainians against a Russian offensive.
