Russian Security Sources Say Ukrainian Air-Defense and Signals Specialists Killed in Kharkiv and Sumy

Overview

• RIA Novosti, citing unnamed Russian security structures, reported the deaths of Ukrainian communications and air-defense personnel sent to frontline positions.
• The outlet said obituaries have appeared online for servicemen from these specialties killed in Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
• One named serviceman, Andrey Vaskov, was reported killed near Starytsia in Kharkiv oblast while serving with the Ukrainian Air Force’s 76th communications and radio-technical support regiment.
• Another case cited involved air-defense battery operator Sergey Dikiy of Kyiv oblast, whom the report said was hit by an FPV drone in a trench.
• The assertions lack independent verification in the provided coverage, and earlier agency reporting had described redeploying 76th regiment signalers to hold positions on the Kharkiv axis.