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On May 2, 2023, the head of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major General Igor Tantsyura, was likely killed by Russian forces in the Bakhmut region.
At 1.25 p.m. local time, artillery units of the Wagner PMCs destroyed an armored vehicle on the road to Bakhmut. Presumably, the commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Ivanovich Tantsyura was killed in the vehicle. He was moving to Bakhmut. The incident took place near the town of Chasov Yar.
“At the moment we are clarifying this information,” added Prigozhin.
Major General Tantsyura
The AFU has not yet commented on the incident.
Ukrainian servicemen are sharing more videos fom the Bakhmut region, showing the roads to the city full of the Ukrainian and NATO military equipment destroyed by Russian fire:
