Russia confirmed on Monday that it lost a top intelligence agent from the Russian military intelligence agency. Alexey Glushchak, a captain with Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU), died in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol last week, said Russian officials in a statement. “Due to the strict secrecy of the military operation, the circumstances of the death of the Tyumen hero are not disclosed,” Russian officials said in a statement. Glushchak’s cause of death was not specified. Several local media outlets published photos of his funeral online. Ukrainian officials last week alleged that their forces recently killed a top Russian general, Vitaly Gerasimov, in fighting around Kharkiv. Ukraine’s military said that Gerasimov is a “Russian military commander, major general, chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Army of the Central Military District of Russia” and added that he was a veteran in Russian campaigns …