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Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, (pictured) the commander of his Pacific Fleet, as the vast military drills he had apparently overseen were still underway
Posted on 04/20/2023 3:30:30 AM PDT by dennisw
Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, the commander of his Pacific Fleet His sacking is a sign that Putin had detected a failure in military exercises
Vladimir Putin today dramatically fired an admiral in charge of his Pacific Fleet in a sign that the Russian despot is furious that military drills that were meant to send a message of strength to the West were a flop.
Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, the commander of his Pacific Fleet, as the vast military drills he had apparently overseen were still underway.
The move to axe Avakyants was confirmed by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev.
His sacking is a sign that Putin had detected a failure in the military exercises that were meant to be a show of strength to the West.
Avakyants has headed the Pacific Fleet since May 2012, and has been shifted to a backroom role in Moscow in charge of military sports training and patriotic training.
The surprise firing - indicating Putin's wrath with his top brass - came after the Kremlin dictator had ordered a sudden spot check on the combat readiness of his Pacific Fleet.
Officially, the drills around Japan's disputed islands were labelled a success but Avakyants' sacking is a sign that Putin was furious that the drills were a flop.
The drills are ongoing - despite Avakyants' sacking. No replacement was announced.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, (pictured) the commander of his Pacific Fleet, as the vast military drills he had apparently overseen were still underway
4 paragraphs and a headline saying the same damn thing. Poor writing at best but probably Pulitzer style with today’s “journalist”.
Exactly.
Zero actual information.
But he has all those medals. The more medals the more competent, right?
What exactly were they supposed to do to show this strength?
Have groomer parades and pronoun training you REMF.
“What exactly were they supposed to do to show this strength?”
They were supposed to NOT constantly bump into each other, run aground, make public laughing stocks of themselves, etc.
Pretty low "bar" to clear - but they didn't manage it.
Regards,
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“Vladimir Putin today dramatically fired an admiral in charge of his Pacific Fleet in a sign that the Russian despot is furious that military drills that were meant to send a message of strength to the West were a flop.”
LOL
pooty never takes responsibility. He wants power without responsibility....an adolescence’s dream
If so, then North Korea is filled with military geniuses.
Don't have the men and women compete directly and stay out of tall buildings with windows and you'll get many more medals, comrade.
to be fair.
I have more Medals than
Eisenhower.
I was and am an E5.
Eisenhower was a desk jockey that kept
a complex war machine together.
Not to take a way from him or his skills.
Battles do not win wars, logistics do.
“D-Day” was pretty deadly and impressive, but it only worked due to logistics.
I’m sure the guy on the right earned his stuff but his politics suck.
I would not trust his judgement any where, any time.
Decamping from Afghanistan was largely a logistics effort. He failed massively.
Those brass buttons look a tad strained ...
But he has all those medals.
Not necessarily true; Shiogu has even more medals - but they are commemorative cardboard medals ...
They show the status of his ability to steal stuff - the more medals, the more he can steal.
My thought exactly.
Some time back, I enlarged a Nork General photo and had a good close look at the ribbons signifying all those medals.
One officer had 12 identical ribbons indicating he had been decorated with 12 identical medals. Another officer had 10 identical ribbons. Then there were several ribbons that were say only 4 or 5 identical medals.
So, the General was decorated, literally, with 17 ribbons of only two types.
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