Another general

Russia loses another general

By Jack Guy

Ukrainian forces killed Russian General Oleg Mityaev of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division near Mariupol, according to a Telegram post shared by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister, last week.

On Sunday, Aleksei Arestovich, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, told Ukraine's NV News that Mityaev "most likely went to show, by example, how to fight. Because his soldiers refused to fight."

Neither the Russian Ministry of Defense nor Russian state media have issued any statements on his death.

CNN cannot independently verify the Ukrainian claim.

Ukrainian officials say a total of five Russian generals have been killed since the invasion began on February 24. If true, this would be an unusually high number of high-ranking soldiers to have been killed in three weeks of combat. In addition, a deputy commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was confirmed killed by two senior Russian officials on Sunday.