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.
Yep, fragging is a definite possibility. Morale seems to be rather low on both sides.
“I think that the ubiquitous “Ukrainian Ambush” is really the Russians fragging their own officers”
“on June 5, Kutuzov gave the 1st and 100th Brigades a suicide order to storm a settlement in the Donetsk region.”
“Kutuzov Died in The Area of Nikolaevka Settlement”
Nikolaevka Settlement looks to be over 20 miles in the rear from the front lines, which would clearly look like fragging over the suicide order. The report below puts it at the similar sounding Mykolaivka, which would be on the front lines, where the fighting was hot and heavy (which would make a Ukrainian kill more likely).
The “New Voice for Ukraine” reports on Yahoo News (https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-military-eliminates-russia-major-130500057.html):
“Ukraine Army’s Center for Strategic Communications, or Stratcom, confirmed reports about Kutuzov’s death in Ukraine late on June 5.
“Exclusive. You’re welcome. ‘Commander of the 1st Army Corps (orcs) of the ‘DPR’ (’Donetsk People’s Republic’), Major General Roman Kutuzov has been officially denazified and demilitarized,” the Ukrainian military said.
A few hours earlier, reports about Kutuzov’s death in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine, where the most intense fighting is now taking place, appeared in Russian public and media outlets.
According to these reports, Kutuzov (nom de guerre “Tuman” (”Fog”)) probably died near the village of Mykolaivka in the Popasna district of Luhansk Oblast. This settlement is located not far from the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, which Russian troops are trying to take control of to cut off part of the Ukrainian military units near Severodonetsk.
On June 5, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Hayday said that Russian commanders had received the task “either to completely capture Severodonetsk by June 10, or to completely cut the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway and take it under control.”
“Therefore, a huge amount of forces, everything that the invaders had, all the reserves have been thrown at these two tasks,” Hayday said.
Kutuzov was killed in this area.”