Posted on 07/13/2023 7:30:44 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling the military leadership about the dire situation at the front in Ukraine, where he said Russian soldiers had been stabbed in the back by the failings of the top military brass.
After the June 24 mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, the biggest domestic challenge to the Russian state in decades, President Vladimir Putin has so far kept Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov in their jobs.
Major General Ivan Popov, who commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army, said in a voice message published by Russian lawmaker Andrei Gurulyov that he had been dismissed after telling the truth to the top brass about the situation at the front.
"The Ukrainian army could not break through our ranks at the front but our senior chief hit us from the rear, viciously beheading the army at the most difficult and intense moment," Popov said.
Popov, whose military call sign was "Spartacus" and who commanded Russian units in southern Ukraine, explicitly raised the deaths of Russian soldiers from Ukrainian artillery and said the army lacked proper counter artillery systems and reconnaissance of enemy artillery.
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General Popov is very popular with his troops.
The old stabbed in the back theory. Where have I heard that before?
No "Fun" on The Lonely Mountain?
Consider a difference of opinion in the Russian military. You have a “mutiny” when some leadership, insisting upon a more aggressive approach in Ukraine, confront the Kremlin. The result is a reorganization and redeployment of resources. Within 4 days, Prigozhin and whatever support he had met Putin. One would assume disagreements were addressed.
There is no difference of opinion at the Pentagon. Anyone who would have spoken up regarding the madness has long since been purged. It’s all political now. Especially at the bloated top, you have corrupt, woke, totally inept Rainbow Warrior leadership. Quickly being blundered into WWIII over the Russian speaking people of Donbas is the result of US top military brass betraying all of us.
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General Popov is very popular with his troops.
You're extremely slow learner, Marcus.
Ask General Popov how the war is going.
General Popov isn’t laughing. Neither are his troops.
Shoigu is no different from the Ukraine generals stealing from the military funding and letting the troops reap the consequences. He should fall out of a 5 story window.
October 8, 2022 - Newsweek article by Andrew Stanton
"The lying has to stop," he said.State Duma Defense Committee's head Andrey Kartapolov told a disappointed propagandist Vladimir Solovyov that aside from not having enough uniforms and equipment for its forces, Russia may not have enough munitions to destroy all of Ukraine's infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/o3VGOAFgFJ - Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 8, 2022
I thought that would be a target-rich environment for you for the next couple of days...
All you got is a Russian general, and a live one, at that.
No Pootie cancer news? No Kadyrov dying news?
No feeble Lukashenko news?
Is sWill Stewart of The Daily Fabulism on summer holiday? Soaking up the sun on the beaches of Kent, with his pasty white "scribbler's tan"?
Corkie Popoff talking about General Popov...how entertaining. These are the kinds of news they post when nothing is going their way.
Putin’s shills on FR will not like this article!
“Russians Kill Their Own Retreating Troops”: Ukrainian Forces Show Liberated Villages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zqTUnQ4PI
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4167706/posts?page=41#41
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