Who is Sergei Sukharev

Sergei Sukharev was one of Putin’s top paratrooper commanders. He was a 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma.

How did Sergei Sukharev Die

Sergei Sukharev and his troops were ambushed and killed by Ukrainian Forces during a  battlefield massacre.

According to the account, his subordinate, Major Sergei Krylov, was also assassinated. They were among a number of members of Russia’s “famous” Kostroma regiment, regarded as one of the country’s most elite combat troops, who were murdered.

Attributed to Ukrinform, this is according to the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security, which cites Anatoliy Shtefan, a military officer and blogger.

Colonel Sergei Sukharev, commanding officer of the Kostroma Airborne Regiment. He became disoriented throughout the ‘exercises,’ but eventually found his way home,” according to the statement.

Major Sergei Krylov, Sukharev’s deputy, went home “the correct way” on March 17th.

In January, Sukharev was seen on Russian television leading his troops back from Kazakhstan, where they had been dispatched in response to a wave of demonstrations.

Sukharev claimed his men defended a key power facility in Almaty, and Russians defined their role as “peacekeeping.”

Sergey Vishnyakov, a military intelligence officer of the GRU’s 22nd Separate Special Forces Brigade, was also killed in the current Ukrainian combat.

Sukharev’s unit is known to have fought against Ukraine outside of Ilovaisk in Donbas in 2014, as well as in both Chechen conflicts and the Russian-Georgian war of 2008,” according to the Center.

Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Russian soldiers have been bombarding and destroying infrastructure in Ukraine’s cities and villages, employing artillery, multiple rocket launchers, and ballistic missiles to target civilian areas.