{"id":221243,"date":"2025-06-28T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221243\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:51:09","slug":"russian-army-disaster-as-ukraine-kills-top-putin-commander-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221243\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian army disaster as Ukraine kills top Putin commander | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine’s army lured Russian troops into a deadly trap, killing a top Putin commander and wiping out a battalion in a battlefield rout. In recent weeks, Putin<\/a>‘s army has launched a major offensive in Ukraine<\/a>‘s northeastern Sumy region.<\/p>\n

Initially, Russian<\/a> units appeared to make rapid progress, encountering little resistance as they poured across the border. However, Ukrainian forces – many of them veterans from the Kursk operation – had effected a tactical withdrawal, repositioning to more defensible areas. They sought shelter in forests, as they bided their time until the right moment to strike.<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/a>‘s military command anticipated that once Russian troops crossed into more open terrain, they would become extremely vulnerable to a counterattack.<\/p>\n

As Putin’s troops advanced ever further from their defensive lines and became exposed in the open, Ukraine<\/a>‘s army moved into action.<\/p>\n

Russian soldiers came under intense artillery and drone fire, as Ukrainian units carried out precision attacks.<\/p>\n

They quickly overran Russian command posts, shattered frontline cohesion, and forced dozens of Putin’s soldiers to surrender.<\/p>\n

Geolocated images from the area show fields littered with Russian casualties in the aftermath of the fierce battle.<\/p>\n

In a major blow for the Kremlin’s generals, a senior Russian commander was reportedly killed as his post was stormed by Ukraine<\/a>‘s army.<\/p>\n

Andrey Vyacheslavovich Yartsev was the battalion commander for Russia<\/a>\u2019s 30th Motorised Rifle Regiment.<\/p>\n

His death caused a sudden breakdown in Russian command coordination, leaving forward units scattered and exposed.<\/p>\n

Taking advantage of the chaos, Ukraine<\/a>‘s elite 225th Separate Assault Battalion launched a lightening counterattack of its own, and within hours had retaken the village of Andriivka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s army lured Russian troops into a deadly trap, killing a top Putin commander and wiping out a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[87391,660,12,332,87390,657,333,658,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-221243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-andrey-vyacheslavovich-yartsev","9":"tag-kremlin","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-sumy-region","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}