 Russia's ghost battalion commander killed in Ukraine. The commander of Russia's ghost brigade, Artur Bogachenko, has reportedly been killed in Ukraine, according to Newsweek. News of Bogachenko's death was reported by the Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anatoli Stefan. While the Russian Telegram channel, Russian Spring Military Correspondents reported that the commander was killed in clashes near Klesievka, a settlement south of Barkhmut in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. He was reportedly the commander of the Prizrak Brigade, meaning Ghost Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces. The Ghost Brigade is a pro-Russian separatist militia operating in the Donbas area of Ukraine. It was formed in the Luhansk region in 2014 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine and illegally annexed the Black Sea Peninsula of Crimea. It comes nearly two months into Ukraine's push to recapture territory Russia has seized throughout the 17-month-old war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that his forces are advancing slowly in the long-anticipated counter-offensive, which kicked off in early June. According to Ukrainian news outlet Focus, the previous commanders of the Ghost Brigade, Alexei Mosgovoy and Alexei Markov, died in 2015 and 2020, respectively. The commander of the Ghost Battalion, Artur Bogachenko, was successfully demobilized. He went to visit Mosgovoy and Markov. Colonel Stefan said.