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According to the television and radio company, senior sergeant Sergei Lebedev, sergeant Alexander Limonov, corporal Yuri Degtyarev and captain Alexei Nikitin were killed..

“Captain Aleksey Nikitin died in the line of duty – Kostroma served in one of the military units of Anapa,” the website of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Kostroma” says..

The TV and radio company reports that Governor Sergei Sitnikov expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

The BBC notes that the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, commanded by Colonel Sukharev, took part in both Chechen wars, as well as in the five-day war in South Ossetia in 2008..

On March 2, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported for the only time about the deaths of Russian servicemen in Ukraine. According to the agency, Russia lost 498 soldiers during the fighting in Ukraine, 1597 were wounded.. Since then, the personal data of the dead fellow countrymen have been disclosed only by the heads of some regions..