[Blurb2350]

If these high-ranking Russians were in fact killed, you can be sure it was with targeting info provided by Nato / US intelligence. The neocons on the Pentagon are playing with fire. This could end very badly for all parties.

[bert]

Blah, blah, blah, bad neocons, yada, yada, yada

[alexander_busek]

If these high-ranking Russians were in fact killed, you can be sure it was with targeting info provided by Nato / US intelligence.

Yeah, how dare those dastardly Americans help the Ukrainians protect their homeland against the marauding invaders!

Regards,

[T. Rustin Noone]

It may well be that NATO targeting support is aiding in the location and executuion of the Staff officers in Ukraine.

Another explanation is that the Russians find themselves at the the wrong end of the morale chain. Motivating reluctant Russian soldiers apparently requires the active participation of Colonels and Generals to lead their troops in to the field. This is where front line troops discover that a live grenade in the General’s command car will earn them a quick ride back to the rear areas for new leadership. I think that the ubiquitous “Ukrainian Ambush” is really the Russians fragging their own officers, hence the shortage of colonels and generals at the front..

Just opening the door to the possibility.

[Widget Jr]

#17. If Russia did not invade Ukraine then Russian Generals would not be killed there. That this fact is a hole in the discussion amuses me. Compared to the U.S. and NATO, the Russian army has leadership issues among NCOs and lower ranking officers. Russian Colonels and Generals are running coordinated tactical operations at the front lines because they have to, not because they should.

The Russians are trying to capture Severodonetsk, where Berdnikov was killed. As has been the case since the invasion started, Russian high ranking officers are at the front lines. Ukrainian soldiers are looking for the Russian officers who act like they are the ones in charge. Finding and taking out those officers is one of their high priorities. This warfare and soldiering, is not spy novel stuff.

[buwaya]

The circumstances stated in the article, from the Russian account, imply that this wasnt targeted, just circumstantial. A major-general took it upon himself to personally lead an attack, for whatever reason, though it is implied that those two brigades (and by further implication also their officers) were reluctant to advance. He died as a courageous man, doing his duty in rallying his men.

If he had died behind the lines in a drone attack or by a precision guided weapon, then it is plausible that it happened through signal or other technological intelligence.