[SAHARAREPORTERS] Top Russian military officer, Colonel Alexander Bespalov, a tank commander has been killed in Ukraine, the ninth senior officer to be lost in the battle.I thought we were only counting generals?
They're counting flag officers.
| All those who are, or were going to become, generals? I’m not sure exactly what a flag officer is. |
He was given a funeral back in Russia but many soldiers corpses had been left to rot on the battlefield, to the despair of their mourning relatives.
There's lots more dead privates than there are dead colonels.
| Each colonel has only one set of privates, surely. And only two ears, no matter how many extras show up on the field of battle. |
19,000 is significant.
Bespalov's death comes after Ukraine announced it had “eliminated” Colonel Denis Kurilo, commander of the 200th motorised rifle brigade, in fierce fighting outside the country’s second city Kharkiv.
"Duck, colonel!... Whoops! Too late!"
"Don't worry. He'll have a nice funeral."
"Let's get started scraping him up."
Bespalov was commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment, Russia’s 74.RU news website reports.