Posted on 10/03/2022 3:05:40 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
CHECHEN leader Ramzan Kadyrov has immediately taken to Telegram to blame Russian commander Alexander Lapin for Russia’s retreat in Lyman, Ukraine.
Ramzan Kadyrov blamed Colonel General Oleksandr Lapin, who commanded the defence of this section of the front, for the loss of Lyman.
“I have always said: there is nothing better than the truth, however bitter and hurtful, but the truth,” he said.
“It is the only way to move forward. That is why I cannot keep quiet about what happened in Krasny Lyman.”
He added: “The commander of the Central Military District Colonel-General Alexander Lapin was in charge of the defence of this sector. The same Lapin who received the star of Hero of Russia for the capture of Lysychansk, although de facto he was nowhere near there.
“Lapin was also subordinated to the troops of the Western Military District.
“The Colonel-General had deployed mobilized fighters from the LNR and other units at all the Lyman direction but had not provided them with the necessary communication, interaction and ammunition supply.
“A fortnight ago Major-General Akhmat, my dear brother Apty Alaudinov, informed me personally that our fighters might become easy targets. I, in turn, informed Valery Gerasimov, head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, of the danger.
“But the general assured me that he did not doubt Lapin’s military talent and did not consider a retreat in Krasnoe Lyman and its vicinity possible.”
Kadyrov, who praised Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation for acquiring four new territories, continued: “A week later, Lapin moves his headquarters to Starobelsk, a hundred kilometres away from his subordinates, while he himself takes refuge in Luhansk.
“How is it possible to manage units promptly when they are 150 kilometres away? Due to a lack of basic military logistics,
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But I though it was all a strategically planned withdrawal, right? They both seem quite publicly upset by it if that is really the case....
It also show Putin’s lack of discipline over his generals by letting the cat fights take place in public.
Is he threatening a third Chechen war? Is he criticizing Putin?
Russian command arrangements and message discipline seem to be going to pot. I can understand Kadyrov, who is at least semi-independent and indulged. He is at least de facto a head of state. But the general, supposedly under discipline, is talking out of school.
Matthew 8:9
” For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.”
Both seem to indicate something bad happened for the Russian cause in Lyman...
Diversity is Putin’s strength.
“How is it possible to manage units promptly when they are 150 kilometres away? Due to a lack of basic military logistics”
Just for fun, how far away from combat operations has Kadyrov been for the last three months?
Yes. The Russian army—military—cannot win the invasion for Russia. They’re overextended and do not have the ability to keep territory when pressed. Lack of supplies, bad decision making, and an enemy who is well armed and determined to drive them out.
Maybe things will change for them. But right now, things are really bad.
Anyone taking bets on how long before the Chechen general turns on Putin and takes advantage of Russias weakness?
I want to see Ukraine as a strong buffer state between the rest of Europe and Russia.
We need Russia to be strong enough to resist Chinese imperialism from the East, a much greater threat to Russia than NATO.
Russia has all the resources to be a strong country, if they adopt even the minimal capitalism of China.
Someone should hand these two machetes and hack each other to death in a cage match.
I don’t either but Putin is making mistake after mistake. Someone needs to give him a way out before it’s too late.
Trying to fix a screwed up logistical system and culture in the middle of a war would be extraordinarily difficult.
The question would then be could Russia without nukes resist the Chinese? Russia might have to decide between allying and truly normalizing with the West (which doesn’t really want or need to subjugate Russia, it just wants Russia to behave no worse than, say, Brazil does in S. America), or being mostly eaten by China.
Tough choice. The former requires Russia to reject a good part of its historical mindset, the latter loses it most of its territory.
I guess he doesn’t know Putin has been personally commanding the troops in the field.
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