Russian "special" Colonel With The Call Sign "Pioneer" Liquidated In Donetsk

• 6.07.2025, 8:50

He was on special assignments in the war against the Ukraine.

As a result of strikes in the occupied Donetsk region on June 30, a colonel and chief of communications of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation Vasily Skirnevsky was liquidated. He participated in combat operations in Chechnya, Ossetia, and from 2022 became a participant in Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, writes "Focus".

In the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, Skirnevsky performed "special tasks," as the administration of the Parabelsky district of Tomsk Region reported in Telegram.

"On June 30, 2025, our fellow countryman Vasily Fedorovich Skirnevsky died while performing special tasks during a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, 'DNR' and 'LNR'," the Russian media informed.

Colonel Vasily Skirnevsky had the call sign "Pioneer". He was born on April 5, 1978 in the village of Parabel, Tomsk region, and studied at the Tomsk Higher Military Command School of Communications. Then graduated from the command faculty of the military communications school.

Vasily Skrinevsky was the head of the communications department of the communications department of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, chief engineer of the communications department of the city of Yekaterinburg. Subsequently, he worked as chief of communications of the Volunteer Corps and regiment communications chief.

The colonel was awarded the "Order of Courage".

OSINT analyst Necro Mancer on his page on the X network also drew attention to the news of Skirnevsky's death. According to him, the colonel "went through Chechnya, Ossetia, walked near Kiev and was despicably killed by NATO near the TSUM in Donetsk."