The deputy commander of the 8th Army of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, has died in the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the Russian news agency TASS. The news was confirmed by the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov. "Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died a heroic death in battle with the Ukrainian nationalists," Beglov said. 

The governor said Frolov "sacrificed his life so that children, women and the elderly in Donbas would no longer hear bomb blasts. He struggled to stop waiting for them to die and leave their homes, or to say goodbye as if it were their last time." 

Throughout the war, several Russian generals and high-ranking military personnel were reported dead. It is unusual for such high-ranking officers to put themselves at risk by approaching the battlefield, and Western sources believe that they did so to gain some control over operations that, in some areas, have stalled badly.