Russia continues firing generals amid ‘purge’ by defense ministry

The New York Post ^ | July 15, 2023 | Jacob Geanous

[Timber Rattler]

Russia sacked two generals in the past week, as Moscow’s Ministry of Defense reportedly continues to purge its top officers, pointing to a growing disarray in the military leadership following the aborted rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group.

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu canned Maj. Gen. Vladimir Seliverstov, commander of the Tula Airborne Division, this week, according to Belarusian news outlet Charter97.

The governor of the Tula region, which borders Moscow, Alexei Dyumin, tried to stand up for Seliverstov, who was involved in the battles in Bakhmut, but to no avail, according to the Russian publication VChK-OGPU.

Seliverstov’s reported firing comes days after Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov was sacked following a recorded tirade he went on against the Russian government, in which he raised questions about high casualty rates and lack of artillery support, echoing the themes of some of the tirades posted by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the weeks leading up to last month’s short-lived mutiny.

Popov, 48, claimed in a voice recording published by Russian Politician Andrew Gurulyov that he was fired as head of the 58th Combined Arms Army in retaliation for his criticism.

“I had no right to lie in the name of you, in the name of my fallen comrades in arms, so I outlined all the problems which exist,” he said in the recording.

[Timber Rattler]

So what is that 29 or 30 senior commanders sacked now over the past three weeks? Must be doing wonders for morale in the Russian armed forces.

And has anybody seen General Armageddon lately?

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[Steve Van Doorn]

We shuffled Generals in WWII as a strategy.

[linMcHlp]

Seliverstov has probably been rotated into another job: Doing a Patton.

[Timber Rattler]

28 of them all at once?

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[Right_Wing_Madman]

And has anybody seen General Armageddon lately?

I thought for sure you were zotted last weekend. Too bad.

Nothing has changed since you were gone. Ukraine is still getting crushed.

[buwaya]

No, the US didn’t do that. US Army, Corps and Divisional generals had quite stable appointments. Only one Corps commander, Fredendall, was relieved for cause.

[Timber Rattler]

And General Henry Miller too, for drunkenly blurting out the date for D-Day at a cocktail party.

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[dennisw]

[Wallace T.]

This purge looks more like what Stalin did to the Red Army in the 1930s, than the firings that Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt performed in wartime. Stalin’s paranoia sufficiently decimated the Soviet military that it contributed to the initial collapse of the Red Army after Hitler’s invasion.

[Adder]

Well at least they look like guys..

[buwaya]

Ninth Air Force Service Command. And he was a USAAC Major General (equivalent of Divisional command).

A couple of Divisional commanders (other Major Generals) were also relieved. Terry Allen of the 1st Division was one.