Russian military leaders are trying to raise the morale of soldiers after the killing of the tenth general

Russian military leaders are reportedly struggling to raise the morale of soldiers after the 10th General was killed this weekend in the ongoing war with Ukraine.

Major General Andrei Simonov was killed on Saturday near the city of Izyum in the northeastern Kharkiv region, according to Ukrainian authorities. The general was among 100 soldiers killed when a barrage of missiles hit armored vehicles and tanks, marking another major loss for the Russian military since the nation first invaded Ukraine on February 24. Kyiv Post mentioned.

NEWSWEEK He could not independently verify the death of Simonov. Simonov was a prominent leader of electronic warfare, according to Kyiv Post.

Analysts said part of the reason so many generals were killed during the war was that commanders had to go to the front lines to provide the troops with motive.

“They need to go to the forces at the front and try to encourage the troops to fight and kill themselves,” former Estonian army officer Reho Teras said in an interview with Express UK. It just shows me that the soul does not exist. “

The Ukrainian government also claimed last month that morale had become so low across parts of the Russian military that some troops are now present refusing to fight.

“The morale and psychological condition of the aforementioned personnel is low and tends to deteriorate,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement on Thursday. Facebook.

Meanwhile, a pentagonal An official told reporters on Monday that Russian forces continued to “suffer from poor command control and low morale in many units,” as well as “victim aversion,” according to the report. Washington Examiner. yAmis StavridisPrevious NATO As the Supreme Allied Commander Europe said this week the death toll of Russian generals shows that the nation has shown “amazing helplessness throughout the war.

“In recent history, there is no comparable situation in terms of the death of generals,” Stavridis said during a radio interview on WABC 770 AM. “Just to prove a point of comparison here, the United States in all of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq…in all those years and all those battles, not a single general lost an actual fight.” He added that he believed the Russian military had an “inability to carry out logistical operations” and had “poor combat plans”.

Last monthNewsweek I compiled a list of many Russian generals who were killed during the war. Reportedly, the 1st General, Major General Andrei Sokovitsky, was killed by sniper fire on February 28.

Since the beginning of the war, NATO has estimated that Russia has lost between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers. But Ukraine claims to have killed more than 20,000 people. The military death toll in Russia may have outnumbered those in Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials claiming nearly 3,000 of its soldiers have been killed, Forbes reports. However, the official death toll from Ukraine has not been independently verified by the United States

NEWSWEEK I contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry for additional comment.