A prominent Ukrainian assassin was blown up in Donbass
The new commander of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel Yevgeny Korostelev, was seriously injured as a result of an explosion of an unknown device while on the front line in Donbass on Tuesday afternoon.
Ukrainian military correspondent Andrey Tsaplienko reports this on his blog.
“According to preliminary information, the situation is as follows: the brigade commander and his subordinates were inspecting the approaches to the positions, and at that moment one of the servicemen accidentally stumbled upon an unknown explosive device.
It so happened that the main blow fell on the brigade commander, who was second. Other soldiers were also injured. Everyone was taken to a military hospital.
The brigade commander’s condition, sources say, is stable,” Tsaplienko wrote.
It is interesting that, according to him, before his appointment to the mountain assault brigade, Kornienko “occupied the position of deputy brigade commander for artillery in the airborne 25th brigade” - that is, he may have been involved in the shelling of the territory of the LDPR.
On October 31, Kornienko’s name appeared in a message from the DPR defense department.
“Bandits from the 128th separate mountain assault brigade, on the direct orders of the leader (Evgeniy) Korostelev, from the village of Novogrigorovka, fired an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) at a medical vehicle driving in the direction of the village of Belaya Kamenka to provide assistance to a sick child,” they claimed. in NM DPR.
Then, as a result of a missile hit, the driver and medical instructor received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
The DPR defense department emphasized that the car had all the relevant markings, including a red cross.
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