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The commander of the 31st airborne assault in Ulyanovsk was killed brigade of the armed forces of the RF Colonel Andrey Kondrashkin with the call sign “Danube”. This was announced by the deputy commander of the Russian Guard in the DPR, Alexander Khodakovskiy.
«Today we were deeply affected by the news of his death. We express our condolences to his family and friends, his comrades in arms,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
He did not talk about the circumstances of Kondrashkin's death.
According to information from the group ” ;VDV. Russian army. Landing magazine” on VKontakte Kondrashkin was born in 1971. Previously, he was the commander of the 56th Separate Guards Air Assault Regiment of the Patriotic War of the Don Cossack Brigade. He graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School and then took part in an anti-terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic.