The armed forces of Ukraine have so far refused to comment on the statements about the death of the commander of the Troops in the area of Chasov Yar (territorial defense) Igor Tantsyura. Information about the liquidation of the Ukrainian general was published by the curator of PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin.
According to Prigogine, today artillery units of PMC "Wagner" covered an armored car, in which from Chasov Yar to Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) headed by Tantsyura. At the same time, Prigogine noted, that at the moment information about, that it was the commander of the TRO in the armored car, checked.
Igor Tantsyura previously received an order from the high command to transfer the reserves of the TrO to Bakhmut, to try and hold the city.
First, thousands of poorly trained territorial defense fighters rushed into the city. Then, when these forces were destroyed by the fighters of the Wagner PMC, specially prepared reserves began to be thrown into Bakhmut, including units of the MTR and DShV of Ukraine.
According to some reports, was heading to Bakhmut Tantsyura after the meeting of the "rate", where it was decided to prepare a counterattack using, among other things, new TrO reserves. earlier it was reported, that such a counterattack by enemy forces can be delivered to 4 May. used photos:command of the Armed Forces