Posted on 03/16/2022 4:58:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv has said, along with seven members of an elite force under Vladimir Putin's direct command as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine.
Major-General Oleg Mityaev, 47, commander of the army's 150th motorised rifle division, died fighting around the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine's interior ministry said late Tuesday as officials released a photo of what they claimed was his corpse on the battlefield.
It marks the fourth Russian general that Ukraine claims to have taken out and the 13th officer overall, as Putin's invading forces suffer heavy losses at the hands of dogged Ukrainian defenders.
Seven elite SWAT fighters from the feared Dzerzhinsky Division of Russia's national guard were also revealed to have died in the fighting.
A mourning picture was released in Russia showing the photographs of six elite 'maroon beret' special forces fighters from the Vityaz Special Purpose Centre of the Dzerzhinsky Division, named after Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky. It was later revealed that a seventh had been slain.
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Blunders early on in the campaign including poor planning and logistics that saw vehicles stall due to breakdowns, run out of fuel and get bogged down in mud are thought to be behind the eye-watering officer death toll - as commanders were forced to the front to fix the problems before being picked off by Ukrainians.
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I would suspect camera drones would be incredibly effective for locating targets.
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in fact, the UA uses drones in cooperation with some 15,000 civilians running drones with facial recognition software.
He’s a thespian, doing what thespians do.
You’ve got to be kidding me. No way to hide the truth in the modern age? You really drank the cool aid. COVID, impeachment, pee video, Russia Russia Russia, Fraud elections, Vaccines, Mandates? Much easier to hide the truth today than ever before. I don’t know what is happening in Ukraine but I’m very confident it’s not showing up the next day in “The Daily Mail”.
Good points!
And two of them were Army Corps level staff officers.
These sorts of people have urgent duties way behind the lines.
Attack On Europe: Documenting Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (15-MAR-2022)
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
Thousands of images of destroyed Russian and UA vehicles - hope that sates your appetite for destruction.
Right. Because Russian military men are secret propagandists
Not as much as I’d wrong with you
In all those things, most here could access online sources that refuted the MSM narrative, proving what you said is dribble.
Zelenksy said that anyone who captures an enemy vehicle gets to keep it. Anyone have a large bulldozer to recover a tank?
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Ukraine farmers use their tractors to pull Russian vehicles out of the mud - your bulldozer would get stuck - its too heavy.
Further, the farmers do not have to pay taxes on the vehicles they recover, and they are now the fourth largest mechanized army in the world.
Yes.
Again the The US lost 40 generals in WW2.
If the Generals are on the battle field like there Russian Generals seem to be, of course they can die like any other soldiers.
Generals don't have Superman powers. They are not immune to bullets or bombs.
Actually, its their A team. The Vityaz Special Purpose Center of the Dzerzhinsky Division.
How else could they single out the high ranking officers so effectively.
As an amateur war buff it’s extremely interesting to see WWIII play out.
This guy was the commander of the 150th Motor Rifle Division, which is apparently one of the better equipped units of the Russian active forces. They have T90A tanks and BMP-3 IFV’s, the top of the line save for a tiny number of more advanced vehicles. There aren’t that many T-90’s in Russian service and these guys have maybe 1/4 or 1/5th of all those on inventory.
But the Putin cheering section told us that Putin only sent his B Team and all the dead Russians were just a bunch of scrubs.
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They were lied to and, are in turn, relating their ‘truth’, which is a lie. Unless, like the CCP bots (wumaos), they are receiving $$ per post, in which case, its intentional lying.
Wrong, differing COVID views, mandate views and vaccine views were all banned by mainstream outlets. The Russia Russia Russia lies were pushed by so-called elites in both parties. Savvy Russians can no doubt find alternative views just like anyone else could about vaccines. If you don’t see what has been done in the media. I don’t know what else to say. We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Looks like now would be a good time to free Cuba.
I said:
“In the modern internet age there is no way to hide the truth. “
And you just proved my point in that reply so what on earth are you arguing about?
The strategy and weaponry employed to take out tanks and armored vehicles is very useful.
No problem because every country has tons of Generals , you can’t shake a tree without a hand full of Generals falling out
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