The late Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov was the head of the operational Training Department of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces.

In other news about Russian army generals, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian Army Colonel-General Sergei Kuzovlev, who recently briefed Vladimir Putin on the occupation of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, went missing and may have been found dead recently.

On 20 Nov, Kuzovlev briefed Putin that the Russian army had fully occupied Kupiansk. However, on 12 Dec, Zelensky visited the city and recorded a video, disproving Russia's claims of full occupation, clowning Putin in the process.

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Since its brutal invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022, the Kremlin has lost approximately one dozen flag officers, four at the front line.

Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov joins several Russian army generals who have been rendered ineffective by the Ukrainian SBU espionage and sabotage network operating inside Mother Russia.

By contrast, when the USSR invaded and occupied Afghanistan (1979 - 1989), a total of four Soviet generals were killed (and 15,000 soldiers were KIA).

The Ukrainian SBU will continue to remove high-value chess pieces off the board one at a time.