Ukrainian troops killed commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army - Arestovych

Ukrainian troops have killed Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Southern Military District.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a freelance adviser to the head of the President's Office, said this at a briefing on Friday, March 25, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"Over the past day, our troops -- as we previously reported and we can now say for sure -- killed the commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of Russia, Lieutenant General Yakov Vladimirovich Rezantsev," he said.

According to Arestovych, the enemy general was liquidated at the airfield in Chornobaivka, the Kherson region.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying infrastructure, residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.