Posted on 04/20/2023 4:39:38 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet has resigned, Russian President Vladimir Putin's representative in the country's Far East announced on Thursday.
Putin's envoy, Yury Trutnev, said that Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 65, has been appointed the head of a group that is in charge of military sports training and patriotic education, Russia news outlet Kommersant reported. Avakyants had held the position as commander of the Pacific Fleet since 2012.
News of his resignation comes a week after Russia decided to conduct missile launches and torpedo tests as part of a "surprise inspection" of its Pacific Fleet. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on state television on April 14 that its objective "is to increase the ability of the Armed Forces to repel the aggression of a probable enemy from the direction of ocean and sea."
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Stay out of tall hotels, Comrade!
Send him to Bakhmut. It has fallen.
In today’s propaganda wars, I often wonder just what news is actually true. I will give this bit of news the benefit of the doubt and believe it. With that said, I wonder if the Russian navy has always had issues like this. Was the great Soviet navy so incompetent they could not pass a surprise inspection? Or was the Soviet navy not so great as this one appears to be?
And for the Uke war, I think the Russian air force should have had air superiority in the first few weeks of the war. Something is amiss there too.
Some people familiar with the Soviet system say everyone is corrupted by design and, therefore, anyone who falls into disfavor can be legitimately cashiered for corruption. Like NBA officials; They could determine the outcome of any game by calling one team “by the book”. Similar to holding in the NFL.
The Russians proved in Syria that they were terrified of SAM’s
Massive corruption.
Fraudulent Contracts for Peter the Great Cruiser Overhaul
In 2010, the Russian Ministry of Defense awarded a contract for the repair of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky (“Peter the Great”) to the contractor CJSC Special Production and Technical Base Zvezdochka. The newspaper Independent Military Review (Nezavisimoie Voiennoe Obozreniie) reported that the director of the company stated the cost of repair to be RUB 356.1 million (or USD 11.7 million).
Investigations by military prosecutors revealed the deal to be not just corrupt, but fake from beginning to end.
First of all, the company itself, Zvezdochka, turned out to be a shell company that was impersonating the real Zvezdochka ship repair yard, which specializes in the modernization and repair of nuclear and diesel submarines. The fake Zvezdochka that won the contract and received the funds did not even have proper permits from the Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, to repair the nuclear reactor on the cruiser. The doppelganger shell company had, nonetheless, been winning contracts to “repair” the reactors of nuclear submarines for years, despite not having any suitable facilities for carrying out such work.
Unsurprisingly, and perhaps fortunately, the supposed repair work was never carried out—and, it turned out, was never necessary in the first place.
A large proportion of fake-Zvezdochka’s employees were relatives of the company’s Director, and received large salaries and bonuses paid for by Russian state defense procurement orders, presumably for no actual work.
How a company that did not actually do any work was able to continue winning contracts for so long is not entirely clear, but Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinskiy hinted that it is likely that the Ministry of Defense officials that covered this scheme, by signing the contracts and approving fraudulent reports about fulfilled work, also benefited.
Finally, to add insult to injury, the fake company overcharged for the work that was supposed to be carried out, which according to military prosecutors should have been valued at RUB 265.4 million (USD 8.6 million). Indeed, the inflated fee was the initial focus of the investigation.
https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/fraudulent-contracts-for-peter-the-great-cruiser-overhaul/
Howe can it fall when there’s nothing left of it, Comrade?
Bakhmut was chock full of Zelenskyites one month ago.
What happened to these poor souls?
They killed Russians by the thousands. They destroyed every tank that tried to assault the enclave.
They won
Voyage of the Kamchatka 2.0.
So the Zelenskyies destroyed all the Russians and then retreated from Bakhmut?
Do you ever get weary of living in Pretend Land?
No, I just know what is happening and you don’t
You already demonstrated what little you know when you defended Hunter's laptop.
You don't know diddly squat. None of US do.
As a consistent ignorant prevaricator, once again you bring lies to the forum
But, but, you posted there were no discernible crimes evident on Hunter’s laptop. Are you now changing your story?
Now you have told the lie twice on the same thread. If you were an educated person that could read you would know I made no such statement
But being unable to understand words longer than three syllables, you couldn’t understand what I said.
JonPreston....... persistent uncurable prevaricator
Are you now standing in agreement that Hunter’s laptop is a roadmap of criminality, perversion and political corruption?
“Was the great Soviet navy so incompetent they could not pass a surprise inspection?”
Russian military = paper tiger.
The war in Ukraine has exposed their vaunted military as inept, unskilled, untrained, a shadow of its former self. Or was it ALWAYS this way?
Russia is “WINNING”?
Russia should have conquered Ukraine easily like it did France in WW2.
Yet here we are STILL.
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