The Ukrainian Turncoat General Bombing His Own People
9th November 2025
His name is not often spoken among the Ukrainian troops defending the shattered city of Kupiansk, but it is well known.
Lt Gen Sergei Storozhenko, the commander of Russia’s 6th Combined Arms Army, is probably the highest-ranking Ukrainian defector waging war against his homeland.He grew up in a village a two-hour drive west of the city upon which he is now laying siege.
His mission is to recapture the vital stronghold on the north-eastern fringe of Ukraine’s front line, which has been under attack for two years. Occupied in the first months of the war and liberated in September 2022, Ukraine is desperate to prevent it falling for a second time.
If captured, it will act as Russia’s gateway into the wider region, threatening key supply lines and allowing Vladimir Putin’s forces to advance towards the bigger prize of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
So many Russian men have been killed in the pursuit that Ukrainian war bloggers have joked that the 50-year-old traitor is either on their side, or might as well be.