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Experts say there are mounting signs that the Kremlin is purging its top generals in Ukraine, the latest hint of deep dysfunction in Putin's army
Yahoo news ^ | June 22, 2022 | Rebecca Cohen and Abbie Shull

Posted on 06/22/2022 11:12:01 AM PDT by dennisw

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1 posted on 06/22/2022 11:12:01 AM PDT by dennisw
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Russia has failed to capture Ukraine since its unprovoked invasion began on February 24. After making no progress toward capturing the capital city Kyiv, Russian forces have turned their attention to the eastern part of the country, where a grinding war is now being waged.


2 posted on 06/22/2022 11:12:21 AM PDT by dennisw
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Well, the Ukrainians have “replaced” quite a few Russian Generals already...


3 posted on 06/22/2022 11:14:02 AM PDT by donozark (Joe Biden: Empty head equals empty shelves.)
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At some point the Russian military will turn on Putin.............


4 posted on 06/22/2022 11:15:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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“Experts say……”


5 posted on 06/22/2022 11:16:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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But why aren’t they retreating?


6 posted on 06/22/2022 11:19:58 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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“Yahoo News” most certainly.


7 posted on 06/22/2022 11:20:39 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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If Putin even lasts that long

Remember the way constant battlefield losses took a health toll on Hitler?

Putin is currently getting pushed around in a wheelchair, with a blanket on his lap ... and the bad news from the front keeps coming ...


8 posted on 06/22/2022 11:23:10 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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Hitler was also a big time drug user.
He took a shot to put him to sleep, another to wake him up, yet another to regulate his bowels and others for other reasons. His personal doctor was a quack.


9 posted on 06/22/2022 11:29:45 AM PDT by oldvirginian (The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. The FBI is the second largest.)
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Experts say there are mounting signs that the Kremlin is purging its top generals in Ukraine


Is that purging as in retiring or the more common ‘purging’ as in disappearing?


10 posted on 06/22/2022 11:34:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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RE: “purging” top generals

Who are they replacing these top generals with?


11 posted on 06/22/2022 11:39:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“top officials may be blamed for not fully capturing Ukraine”

Impossible, FReepers keep telling me the “war is over”. Or maybe “it will be over in 2 weeks”. Of course they were also saying that 3 months ago.


12 posted on 06/22/2022 11:42:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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General officer purge. How well did that work for Stalin in 1941?


13 posted on 06/22/2022 11:44:48 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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Think of how OUR woke generals would perform under similar circumstances.


14 posted on 06/22/2022 11:47:25 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("hold my phone; I'm from Alaska")
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Putin will croak within a year. And this cannot come too soon. Putin is the spit and baling wire that is holding Russia together. Chaos will come after him. The jousting and warring to replace him will be a sight to behold.


15 posted on 06/22/2022 11:49:08 AM PDT by dennisw
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How many generals do they have? Everyday Russian generals are either killed or replaced according to Yahoo


16 posted on 06/22/2022 11:50:19 AM PDT by Nashcash
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Lots of Ukraine propaganda today, media must be trying to get in front of something.


17 posted on 06/22/2022 11:50:37 AM PDT by teevolt
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I wonder if Putin is considering bring back the shtrafbat, the penal battalions used in WWII?


18 posted on 06/22/2022 12:06:41 PM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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I like Putin’s style:

Let’s redeploy to Afghanistan and put our woke generals on the front lines.

(I’ll make popcorn)


19 posted on 06/22/2022 12:20:59 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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—”But why aren’t they retreating?”

“On July 28, 1942, Joseph Stalin, premier and dictator of the Soviet Union, issues Order No. 227, what came to be known as the “Not one step backward” order, in light of German advances into Russian territory. The order declared, “Panic makers and cowards must be liquidated on the spot.”

The order also directed that each army must create “blocking detachments” at the rear that would shoot “panic-mongers and cowards”.[2] In the first three months, blocking detachments shot 1,000 penal troops and sent 24,000 to penal battalions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_No._227


20 posted on 06/22/2022 12:23:31 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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