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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Will Stewart, Russia Correspondent & Ryan Fahey

Russian elite brigade decimated with one in four killed or injured during Ukraine war

A Russian marine brigade has been decimated with at least 159 servicemen killed and 500 wounded in the war, it is claimed.

Latest to die was Captain Roman Pasynkov, 35, in charge of conscripts for the Black Sea Fleet.

Earlier in the war Colonel Alexei Sharov, 42, the commander of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian Navy was killed in action in Mariupol.

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