Deputy Commander of Russian Arctic brigades is killed in Ukraine
General Aleksandr Zavadsky commanded infantry brigades from the Kola Peninsula. He was killed as his car ran over a mine in the occupied Kharkiv region.
The 45-year old general was the second highest ranked leader of the 14th Army Corps and was in charge of several of the most powerful military units in the Kola Peninsula.
He is reported to have been killed by a mine on the 28th of November near Izyum in occupied parts of Kharkiv region. The death of the high-ranked military man is reported by various both Russian and Ukrainian sources, but has not yet been officially confirmed by the Russian Armed Forces.
Zavadsky was born in 1978. He took on the position in the Kola Peninsula in 2021. Before that, he commanded the Kantemirov Tank Division, website Topwar informs.
The 14th Army Corps is part of the Northern Fleet. It was established in 2017 and includes the 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in Pechenga and the 80th Motorized Infantry Brigade i Alakurtti.
It also includes two tactical groups; the 71st and 99th located in Franz Josef Land and the New Siberian Islands respectively. The total number of men in the 14th Army Corps is about 7,000, a Russian military website informs.
Zavadsky is one of several high-ranking military men from the Kola Peninsula that have been killed in Ukraine. Already one of the first days of the onslaught, Colonel Denis Kurilo was killed. He was head commander of the 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Pechenga, Murmansk Oblast. He was killed outside Kharkiv.
It is not clear how many men from the far northern brigades that have been killed in the war. But the number is in the thousands. In a report published in early 2023, the Norwegian Intelligence Service estimated that only 1/5 of the capacity of the 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade remained intact. That would indicate that about 1,500 men had been killed.
