Sabotage in rear: 18 Russian officers dead after fire in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

According to the project, on August 30, sabotage occurred near the village of Voskresenka. Unknown individuals set fire to grass near the command post of Russia’s 35th Army. The blaze spread to the facilities and bunkers of the command post. Due to heavy smoke and carbon monoxide poisoning, 18 Russian officers died.

Names of the dead

It is known that the following individuals were eliminated:

• Deputy Chief of Staff of the Rocket Forces and Artillery Department of the 35th Army, Colonel Ilya Mahotin, b. 25.02.1980

• Deputy Head of Department - Head of General Operational Planning Division, 35th Army HQ, Lt. Colonel Ruslan Shygabutdinov, b. 25.10.1990

• Head of Fire and Nuclear Strike Planning, 35th Army HQ, Lt. Colonel Dmitry Pashabekov, b. 19.07.1977

• Senior Officer for Mathematical Modeling, 35th Army HQ, Major Rustam Setdarov, b. 02.12.1989

• Officer of Fire and Nuclear Strike Planning, 35th Army HQ, Major Vladimir Sulitskiy, b. 20.02.1988

• Head of Topographic Service, 35th Army HQ, Major Andrey Sylin, b. 20.02.1988

• Head of Technical Information Protection Department of the State Secrets Protection Service, 54th Command Brigade HQ, Major Aleksandr Nitayev, b. 25.12.1984

• Deputy Head of Electronic Warfare Service, 35th Army HQ, Major Aleksey Koltsov, b. 28.02.1988

• Officer of the Operational Department of the Engineering Troops Division, 35th Army HQ, Captain Aleksandr Dmukha, b. 20.02.1979

• Officer of Electronic Warfare Service, 35th Army HQ, Captain Vladislav Panin, b. 23.01.1996

• Officer of the Air Defense Department, 35th Army HQ, Captain Andrey Bogdanov, b. 20.02.1988

• Officer of Reconnaissance Department, Rocket Forces and Artillery Division, 35th Army HQ, Senior Lieutenant Ilya Sivukhin, b. 07.05.1998

• Head of Radio Group, 714th Communications Center, 35th Army HQ, Lieutenant Vadim Yakovets, b. 07.05.1984

The bodies of five others have not yet been evacuated, including:

• Deputy Head of Intelligence - Head of the Intelligence Department, 35th Army HQ, Lt. Colonel Sergey Konoyko, b. 30.06.1978

• Assistant to the Duty Officer of the Territorial Control Center, 35th Army HQ, Major Vladimir Filimonikhin, b. 25.04.1984

• Senior Officer of the Engineering Troops Department, 35th Army HQ, Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Khorin, b. 28.10.1993

• Head of Information Collection and Processing, 714th Communications Center, Captain Semyon Ponomarov, b. 14.08.1997

• UAV Operator (Orlan-10), 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, Yuriy Fokin, b. 06.02.1990

Sabotage on the Russian railway

Earlier, the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar partisan movement ATESH reported that the partisans carried out a successful sabotage on a railway in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkess Republic.

This railway is used by Russia to transport ammunition and military equipment from North Caucasus factories to the Rostov region.