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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Good thinking!
It’s near our borders. People are suffering.
What are we spending tens of billions on a European problem that has festered for a hundred years???
Because Lindseed says so.......
Looks like now would be a good time to free Cuba.
Good thinking!
It’s near our borders. People are suffering.
What are we spending tens of billions on a European problem that has festered for a hundred years???
Because Lindseed says so.......
Russia has 200k troops committed. They have lost 4 generals to combat in 3 weeks. It’s an annualized rate of 69 generals a year so the number of generals they are losing for the size of their force is newsworthy.
The WW2 comparison is to a period of just under 4 years and a much larger force. Of the 40 generals that died during the war, only 11 were the result of combat while four were killed in plane crashes, two were executed by the Japanese, and one was killed by friendly fire. There were also more generals, since larger force. Those losses are not as newsworthy.
Daily Mail is not a credible source of news, one loses IQ point when one reads it (I won’t) and one loses respect when one promotes it.
Halitosis?
The love of Putin among a loud minority is a strange thing here.
He’s a horrid tyrant.
I suppose it comes from being lied to constantly by the MSM; they reasonably presume it’s all lies. I can’t say I blame them.
And, in fairness, there really is a tremendous amount of rah-rah propaganda being pushed re: Russian losses.
But in this case, the stopped clock that is the MSM is right — Russians are the bad guys.
Note, that doesn’t make the Ukrainians angels or the motives of the MSM or Brandon pure.
Reminds me France in WWII and Charles de Gaulle. France would have happily aligned itself with the Nazis, and, in fact large portions did. Heck, my grandparent’s French neighbors gladly turned them over to the SS — and my grandfather was the town doctor who delivered most of the babies and saved many a life.
In life, few things are pure.
William Wallace fought King Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks. Today, Ukraine is fighting Putin LongTable.
Regarding Putin.
My belief is that while he is an ex KGB guy and who really knows his motives, Putin took the job to save Mother Russia.
She was very ill. Her male population was alcoholic. Her women picked up the slack and worked themselves to the bone. They ceased having kids.The former party members stole all the assets and wealth and just squandered it. The west came in and offered and provided all sorts of stuff and it was stolen by the oligarchs. Mother Russia remained very ill
Putin to this day may not be able to save her. He sells oil but not much else. He flaunts his weapons that are the only other product he makes that is worth a damn. He shows off his air planes. He parades weapons in use in Syria. He is being a salesman displaying his wares. He spends precious money in Syria prohibiting GCC pipelines to Europe
Putin’s Russia has a smaller population than the single Indonesian island of Java, His economy is smaller than Canada and just a bit larger than Australia. And get this. The Russian economy is smaller than South Korea. The Russians seem to lack the intellectual capacity to work and create anything worth a damn.
Putin is in fact failing his main job......... saving Mother Russia
They’d need a CAT D-10 Dozer; maybe two to get those tanks out of the mud. The Spring thaw mud affects unpaved roads the most.
He fears being assassinated.
That's not how it works.
The WW2 comparison is to a period of just under 4 years and a much larger force.
Except vastly more Russians than Americans got killed in WW2 and vastly more Russian soldiers and generals lost their lives in WW2.
Its Russians who are fighting now, not Americans.
Again as long as the Russian Generals are on the battlefield (like they seem to be), some of them are going to die. Its war.
Outside of sheer propaganda, there is no need making a song and dance about it.
I remember one of the Soviet dissidents at CPAC ‘78 or ‘79 said that the GNP of the USSR was meaningless ... It was a Gross National Lie. He said the Soviet Union’s top-down “economic planning” was not comparable to Western nations because they kept a war economy.
Another dissident said that what God put in the ground is what keeps their economy afloat: oil, natural gas, gold, coal, iron, etc.
“Generals like other soldiers die in wars.
What’s new about that?”
LMAO! These aren’t the Napoleonic Wars. Generals don’t lead their troops from the front lines where they are in danger of being killed anymore. Not unless something has gone very seriously wrong with their battle plan.
" We’re looking at a (Russian) force of 130, 150, 180 thousand, I don’t know what it will be when the day approaches, but a force that is substantial enough to seize the Russian-speaking areas that are east of the Dnieper River and, frankly, all the way out to Odessa if he decides to do it. There’s not a great deal we can do about it."
If the Generals were not on the battlefield, how did they get killed on the battlefield?
“If the Generals were not on the battlefield...”
If you read the part of my comment that you decided not to quote, then you wouldn’t have to ask this question.
If you’d read all my posts, you wouldn’t have made your post in the first place, given that someone else had brought up the same point you made and been answered.
“If you’d read all my posts, you wouldn’t have made your post in the first place...”
No, I still would have.
“someone else had brought up the same point you made and been answered”
Just because you think your “answer” is satisfactory doesn’t mean it actually is.
Daily Mail is not a credible source of news, one loses IQ point when one reads it (I won’t) and one loses respect when one promotes it.
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