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The corpse of Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of the army's feared 150th motorised rifle division, was recovered weeks after he was killed in an ambush in Mariupol on March 16.
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A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed during 'special operation'.
A senior Western official confirmed the names, ranks and "killed in action" status of seven Russian generals. In all, at least 15 senior Russian commanders have been killed in the field, a Ukraine official said.
Lt Gen Yakov Rezanstev is the latest Russian commander killed during the invasion of Ukraine, in what analysts say has been an unusually successful tactic.
In an update from Kyiv's MoD, the country said that the commander within the '4th tank division of the Russian Federation' shot himself due to the dire condition of the unit's tanks held in reserve.
Western officials also named the seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed in the 30 days since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine on February 24.
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, commander of the army's 49th combined arms division, was killed in a strike by the Ukrainian armed forces, sources in Kyiv said.