He was the commander of the Samara military police and was reportedly killed at an unannounced location in Ukraine. Lt. Col. Georgy Petrunin, 48, was the seventh of eight generations of Cossack family to serve in the Tsarist, Soviet and Russian armies. / Georgy Petrunin / East2west News Details of how he was killed have not been released, but Putin’s forces are bleeding senior officers, having lost dozens of his top generals and colonels.
READ MORE
His two sons, aged 27 and 18, followed him in the military career, according to reports. The eldest is in military intelligence and his youngest son is probationer. He was the commander of the Samara military police / Georgy Petrunin / East2west News Petrounin had been involved in wars in Syria and Chechnya. According to information, the colonel is going to be buried in Volgograd on Tuesday.
