(Yes, that's Ryan Routh.)
Posted on 05/16/2025 5:39:35 PM PDT by McGruff
A colonel general dubbed "General Breakthrough" for distinguishing himself in key battles in Moscow's more than three-year-old war in Ukraine has been appointed head of Russia's land forces, the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta said on Friday.
The government daily said Andrei Mordvichev was born in 1976 in what was then Soviet Kazakhstan and last year was decorated as a Hero of Russia, the country's highest award.
Mordvichev, previously head of the Central Military District, commanded operations that led to the 2022 surrender of Ukrainian units holding out in the Azovstal steelworks after a siege of about 80 days in the southern port of Mariupol.
In 2024, he led Russian troops capturing the mining centre of Avdiivka in Donetsk region on the war's eastern front, a key operation in a town where Ukrainian authorities had for years built up fortifications.
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Got the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade surrender when they vowed to fight to the death.
The Ghost of Kiev would like a word as even Adam Kinzinger fell for that one
(Yes, that's Ryan Routh.)
“Got the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade surrender when they vowed to fight to the death.”
Just to have Erdogan release them. Hopefully Putin keeps that in mind.
A “colonel general”...?
Is this their analogy to a brigadier general?
Wasn’t the Russian victory tank parade supposed to be rolling through Kyiv three years ago?
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