Putin loses his 57th colonel in just four months of war as footage shows the moment a Russian base is pounded by powerful howitzers

 Putin loses his 57th colonel in just four months of war as footage shows the moment a Russian base is pounded by powerful howitzers

• Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Kislyakov, 40, is the 57th Russian colonel KIA in Ukraine
• His death highlights the stark losses of high-ranking officers suffered by Russia
• Comes as Ukraine's military released video of an artillery hit on a Russian base
• It claimed that Western-supplied M777 howitzers were used in the attack

• Vladimir Putin has lost yet another high-ranking military officer amid bitter fighting in Ukraine as his forces suffer a series of humiliating setbacks. 

  Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Kislyakov, 40, was buried today with full military honours in his hometown in Moscow region.

  Kislyakov, commander of a prestigious unit of Russian paratroopers, is the 57th colonel to have been killed since Putin ordered his troops over the border on February 24. 

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