Russia suffers its worst massacre of military leadership since the Second World War

Vladimir Putin's Russian Army has lost another commander - the 15th of Putin's top military leaders to be killed as the country's invasion of Ukraine heads into its second month. Russian top military officials killed during invasion Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev Major General Vitaly Gerasimov Major General Andrei Kolesnikov Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky Major-General Oleg Mityaev Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko Colonel Sergei Porokhyna Colonel Sergei Sukharev Colonel Andrei Zakharov Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov Major Viktor Maksimchuk General Magomed Tushaev Captain Andrey Paliy Captain Alexey Glushchak Colonel Alexei Sharov Sharov's death comes after the death of Colonel Nikolay Ovcharenko, Commander of the 45th Engineering Regiment. Russia's war casualties Major General Andrei Kolesnikov: Commander of the 29th Combined Army Army Major General Vitaly Gerasimov: First deputy commander of Russia's 41st army who took part in operations in Syria and Crimea Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky: Deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District killed during a special operation by a sniper Major-General Oleg Mityaev: Commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting around the besieged city of Mariupol Major General Andrei Kolesnikov of the 29th Combined Arms Army was killed last week in another blow to the Kremlin Major General Vitaly Gerasimov was killed last week and was the first deputy commander of Russia's 41st army. Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, 47, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, was also killed in Ukraine Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, was killed by Ukrainian troops near Mariupol - Kyiv has said Colonel Andrei Zakharov: Killed in a Ukrainian ambush near Kyiv Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov: Leader of marine brigade killed after Ukrainian forces recaptured Chernihiv Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov: Leader of air assault troops killed in Chernihiv Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky: Leader of air assault troops killed in the south of Ukraine Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov and Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov died in a battle in Chuhuiv and Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky, who led air assault troops died in the south of Ukraine and Captain Alexey Glushchak, of the GRU intelligence service, who died fighting near Mariupol Colonel Andrei Zakharov was killed in an ambush near Kyiv in the opening days of the war, while General Magomed Tushaev: Chechen special forces leader killed in an ambush near Hostomel Vladimir Zhonga: Leader of neo-Nazi Sparta Battalion backed by the Kremlin Georgy Dudorov: Deputy commander of the reconnaissance company for the 137th regiment of the 106th Tula Guards Airborne Division Aleksey Aleshko: Paratroop intelligence officer that was a graduate of the prestigious Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne School Vladimir Zhoga, the leader of a military group from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was killed in Volnovakha while Chechen general Magomed Tushaev was reported killed in an ambush on an armoured column Georgy Dudorov, deputy commander of an airborne reconnaissance division, and Aleksey Aleshko, a paratroop intelligence officer, have also been killed Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said there 'will not be enough space for everyone' to leave the city on Tuesday - amid estimates that up to 300,000 people remain there - but 'we will try to carry out the evacuation until we have gotten all the inhabitants.' Two 'super powerful bombs' hit Mariupol today as officials tried to evacuate thousands of civilians from the besieged city, which has been described as a 'hell-scape riddled with dead bodies' by humanitarian workers A handout satellite image made available by Maxar Technologies shows a burning high-rise apartment buildings in Mariupol, Ukraine Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February prompting the country's president to declare martial law and triggering a series of announcements by Western countries to impose severe economic sanctions on Russia He said: 'You know very well who orders troops to go to war and who propagates this.