A Russian commander who oversaw an infamous massacre of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers was found shot dead in his home. There are conflicting reports as to who is responsible for the mysterious death of Dmitri Lissitsky, who was accused of the 2014 Ilovaisk massacre. Ukrainian source said he was “eliminated”
One of Vladimir Putin’s most notorious commanders, Lt. Col. Dmitry Lisitsky, has died of gunfire at the age of 48. There are conflicting reports about who is behind his death, with Ukraine claiming he was ‘eliminated’ in revenge for the infamous massacre of hundreds of its soldiers during August 2014. Then came a turning point in the fighting And the separatists succeeded in encircling thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in several areas, the most prominent of which is the encirclement of the city of Ilubysk where thousands of Ukrainian soldiers were killed and captured.
He was found dead in his hometown of Stavropol, the Russians claim that he was depressed over the ongoing war in Ukraine and was sick, on the other hand, Ukrainian sources claim that he was killed. Lisitsky, the recipient of his country’s highest medal, a Hero of Russia, was the commander of the 1st Assault Battalion of the 247th Airborne Regiment in Crimea.
He commanded a battalion accused of attacking the Ukrainians during a ceasefire. It is suspected that he gave the order to open fire on the Ukrainians as soon as they entered the open area that had been declared a ceasefire area. In addition to 366 soldiers who died, 450 were wounded and 300 were captured. Putin awarded him the Hero of Russia medal in 2015.
Every year, Ukraine observes a day of remembrance on August 29, the date was chosen because it was the date on which the highest number of soldiers killed during the battle was recorded. The same Russian unit responsible for the massacre was also charged with war crimes committed in the Boche during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On September 9, 2022, it was reported that the entire unit was destroyed by Ukraine’s swift counterattack in the Kherson region.
His death was first announced by the Ukrainian journalist Yury Botusov who claimed that Ukrainian forces once again took revenge and killed Dmitri Lysitsky. His battalion suffered “heavy losses” when Russia retreated from Kharkiv last year and “Lissitsky’s elimination will seriously weaken the battalion’s combat capability,” Botusov claimed. Russian sources, however, say his body was found in his apartment in Stavropol. Acquaintances said that Lisitsky was recently depressed because of a “complaint about his illegal actions against military personnel” during the war against Ukraine.