Posted on 05/24/2024 5:08:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A Russian army general who was blamed for a costly HIMARS strike on troops in occupied Ukraine last year has been removed from his post, according to pro-war Russian Telegram channels.
Lieutenant General Sukhrab Akhmedov was dismissed as commander of the Russian 20th Combined Arms Army (CAA), per reports from prominent Russian milbloggers. The formation is currently engaged in Russia's grinding offensive towards the eastern city of Lyman on the Donetsk front.
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Akhmedov has been involved in multiple battlefield setbacks since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, including the 20th CAA's recent inability to make significant progress on the Kharkiv-Luhansk axis in Russia's ongoing offensive.
The commander was also at the center of a Ukrainian HIMARS—M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System—strike on Russian forces in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kreminna, Luhansk, in June 2023.
The strike reportedly killed or wounded hundreds of Russian soldiers, who had been assembled to hear Akhmedov speak. "For two hours, people stood in a crowd in one place and waited for the division commander to give his motivating speech," prominent milblogger Rybar wrote at the time.
Another well-known milblogger—posting on the Two Majors channel—said of the incident: "You can't stand in a column for two hours in one place! What are you doing, father commanders, you people in charge!...We are at war with our own stupidity and sloppiness, coated with fancy reports from above."
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Look for a river crossing counterattack by the Azov guys Speedo battalion.
Why are you gloating? This is addition by subtraction. Maybe his replacement will be a better commander.
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