The Ukrainian military killed the commander of the 49th All-Russian Army, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, at the airfield in Chornobayivka (Kherson region).
This was announced today at a briefing by Oleksiy Arestovych, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
During the day, our troops, as we previously reported and can now say for sure, destroyed the commander of the 49th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Yakov Vladimirovich Rezantsev. It happened at the airfield in Chornobayivka, – Arestovych told.
It is known that Yakov Rezantsev was born in June 1973 in the Altai Territory of the Russian Federation. He commanded the 57th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation, the 41st General Army of the Central Military District.
In August 2020, he became commander of the 49th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation (Stavropol). In 2021 he received the rank of lieutenant general.
He took part in hostilities in Syria, and now – in a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.
It is worth noting that the day before, Ukrainian troops covered enemy troops based at the airfield near Chornobaivka with artillery fire for the tenth time.
During one of the previous strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the airfield, the advanced command post of the 8th All-Russian Army and the command itself were destroyed. In particular, the commander of the Russian army, General Andrei Mordvichev, was eliminated.
Oleksiy Arestovych previously explained what the “phenomenon” of Chornobaivka is. According to him, the enemy has accumulated a large group of troops in the direction of the temporarily occupied Crimea, but there were few opportunities to transfer these forces. In addition, the Russian invaders tried to accumulate a helicopter grouping. And for this they need an airfield in Chornobayivka.