Another Russian general has been killed by Ukrainian forces in the Ukraine war.

One of Moscow’s top generals was killed during heavy fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, according to Russian state media.

According to a reporter for the state-owned Rossiya 1, Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov was killed while leading an assault on a Ukrainian settlement in the region.

According to Alexander Sladkov, Gen Kutuzov was commanding troops from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

The Russian defence ministry has not responded to the reports.

“The general had led soldiers into attack, as if there aren’t enough colonels,” Mr Sladkov wrote on the social media app Telegram. “However, Roman was the same commander as everyone else, albeit with a higher rank.”

Ukraine’s military also confirmed Gen Kutuzov’s death, but provided no additional information about the circumstances.

His death follows reports on social media that a second senior officer, Lt Gen Roman Berdnikov, commander of the 29th Army, was killed in fighting over the weekend. Russian commanders have been increasingly forced to the front in an attempt to drive forward the invasion and Moscow has confirmed the deaths of three senior generals.

Kyiv claims to have killed 12 generals, while Western intelligence officials claim to have killed at least seven senior commanders.