Ninth Russian colonel killed alongside 8 troops
Just three days prior, Ukraine announced Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, 48, was the seventh general and the second lieutenant general to be killed in the invasion
Putin suffers fresh blow as ninth Russian colonel slaughtered alongside 8 troops
Lt Col Alexander Kornik, 39, reportedly died alongside eight soldiers of his regiment while crossing a bridge in Chernihev, Ukraine, around 90 miles from Kyiv
Just three days prior, Ukraine announced Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, 48, was the seventh general and the second lieutenant general to be killed in the invasion
Putin suffers fresh blow as ninth Russian colonel slaughtered alongside 8 troops
Lt Col Alexander Kornik, 39, reportedly died alongside eight soldiers of his regiment while crossing a bridge in Chernihev, Ukraine, around 90 miles from Kyiv
