Colonel Olga "Korsa" Kachura became the first high-ranking woman from the ranks of the Russian army to lose her life in the war in Ukraine, world agencies reported.

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Kachura, who often bragged on Russian state media about killing Ukrainians and whose soldiers under her command fired on civilians in the Donbass region, was killed in a missile strike on Thursday.

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Kachura, 52, commanded the rocket artillery division that was reported to have shelled civilians in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The woman died after a Ukrainian missile hit the vehicle she was driving in the city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk region.

Russian forces shelled a bus stop in Ukraine.

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Olga Kachura was born in Ukraine and was working at the police station in Gorlovka when she defected to pro-Russian forces in Crimea in 2014.

According to information from the Ukrainian armed forces, Kachura often disguised herself in Ukrainian military uniforms to commit war crimes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded Kachura the title of Hero of Russia, the Kremlin's highest award, "for her courage and heroism in the performance of military duty," 20minutos reported.

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