Posted on 06/03/2022 9:31:24 PM PDT by Cronos
Russia's war chief in Ukraine hasn't been seen for weeks, NYT reported, citing US officials.
Some officials speculate he may have been removed from his post as top commander.
Gen. Alexander Dvornikov was dubbed "The Butcher of Syria," and was assigned to Ukraine in April.
...Dvornikov effort have yet to provide significant victories.
Russia had lost an estimated 1,000 tanks, a substantial number of troops, combat assets, and aircraft since the war began on February 24.
While Russian forces took the port city of Mariupol after a lengthy siege, they lost Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv in mid-May. Meanwhile, some reports from Ukraine said that Ukrainian troops had even fought their way to the Russian border.
Russia's invasion has continued to stall under Dvornikov because the country's leaders "haven't been able to change the character of the Russian army," Frederick W. Kagan, the director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Times.
The Russian army's fundamental flaws include its ground units not being trained to make their own decisions in battle and its air force not staying in Ukrainian airspace to achieve air superiority, The Times reported.
...speculation that he was replaced by General Gennady Zhidko, former commander of the Eastern Military District and Moscow’s Deputy Defense Minister for Political Affairs. As noted by analyst Ruslan Leviev, the removal can be linked to a “rotation process” of the senior operational management of the armed forces, “similar to the one seen in Syria”, given that it does not appear at the moment to be the result of an administration considered disappointing.
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“Butcher of Syria”? He only bombed islamist area rebels, and constantly offered safe passage to get to the Syrian controlled safe zone.
But we got mad because he was effective against our Wahabbist ISIS monster.
He’s probably being cautious since our forces are conducting an assassination campaign against Russian generals. Our military has gotten very good at targeting leaders in 20 years of democratic war.
More propaganda from the Zionist pigs!
The ship floats all is well!
He’s sixty years old and probably like most Russian generals...having consumed an excessive amount of booze over his life. I’m more likely to believe he has health issues and just trying to do duty-lite.
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