 Commander of Russia's Akhmat unit killed in Donbass, Yevgeny Pisarenko, the commander of Akhmat, a faction-armed formation that is fighting on the Russian side has been killed in combat in Donbass. Russian Kremlin-aligned media, RBC reported it, citing Aptar Aladinov, Pisarenko's successor. In his statement, Aladinov thanked the deceased fighter's parents for raising such a hero. Dmitry Kolko, a Russian war correspondent, also reported the death of Pisarenko. Pisarenko was a fellow countryman of mine who served in the Stavropol riot police and received the rank of colonel. When the special military operation started, he went to the front as a volunteer soldier to protect the residents of Donbass, he wrote. The date of Pisarenko's death was not specified. The Akhmat battalion has been participating in combat action in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.