Posted on 06/26/2022 10:45:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Putin has called an obese general out of retirement to take command of forces in Ukraine after yet another round of purges of top commanders has left him 'scraping the barrel'.
The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable life in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his specially-made army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine.
He will now take charge of Russian special forces operating in the region after the unit's former commander was seriously injured in an artillery strike.
A veteran of the Soviet Union's ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s and a member of Russia's special forces, General Pavel has let himself go considerably since retirement five years ago.
He is understood to eat five meals a day and polish it all off with a litre of vodka. Since coming back to the service, he has had to have his uniform specially made and he needs to wear two sets of body armour to ensure his torso is protected.
'Most of his best and battle-hardened senior commanders have been killed or injured fighting in Ukraine so he is resorting to sending second rate officers to the front who don't last very long.
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Despite capturing the key city of Severodonetsk yesterday, there have been reports that Putin has now sacked his number one general in Ukraine, ostensibly over the glacial pace of advance of the Russian army's primary thrust to annex the Donbas.
The dismissal of Gen Alexander Dvornikov, rumoured to be a drunk and distrusted by his officers, would mark yet another major shake up of Putin's command structure, and an expression of the dictator's frustration with the state of his war in Ukraine, which he had supposed would be successfully over within four days.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
My goodness. He’s even fatter than I am! Near the same age too. The big difference is I”m not trying to lead a foreign invasion just now.
I’ll bet this guy thought for sure somebody was kidding him with ‘You have orders to return to Duty in two weeks.
You can supplement your retirement, and at goverment expense!
Yeah...I was like “Huh? Is he four feet tall?”
He may be obese but he’s not the typical US faggot officer.
he is more than 280 pounds
Anyone seen Chris Cristy lately?
Meat shield.😏
Weapon
Of
Mass
Blubber.😁
True.🤔
Corporal Porky Pig re-re-re reporting for duty, comrade!
The joys of military retirement in an Autocracy. I wonder when someone will eliminate the source of the problem?
Thanks for post!
One comment following the article said:
“He’s a snipers dream easy to spot and hard to miss!”
Thanks a lot for this new insight into the life of a remarkable and historically totally under appreciated commander.
It appears this story about “Pavel” may be a fake according to what appears to be careful research. Or could it be a complicated set up to accuse Ukraine of making things up and proving that everything Russia or Pooty Pals say is the truth? This was suggested in this post at comment #42. Below is the link for the newly posted research that “proves” this story is a fake. Does it really do that?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4077204/posts
Yes, it does.
This is what we call "desperation."
Your dichotomy is entirely unnecessary. You don't have to completely ignore the existence of Russian propaganda to acknowledge the fact that Daily Mail also posts lots of propaganda, albeit from a different angle.
For perspective: the two individuals in the original Twitter thread (Rien Emmery and Lotte Lambrecht) work as fact-checkers for a Belgian magazine called Knack. As you can see from here and here shows that they are evenhanded with their fact-checking, both for and against Russia and Ukraine.
Below is the link for the newly posted research that “proves” this story is a fake. Does it really do that?
Unless you think any of the evidence gathered by Rien and Lotte to debunk the Daily Star was fake, what reason do you have to doubt it?
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