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A top Russian general stationed in Ukraine said that he was dismissed from his post after complaining that the Russian defense ministry was providing inadequate support to his troops. General Ivan Popov, one of the most senior Russian officers involved with the war, said he raised concerns about “the mass deaths and injuries” of his “brothers” from Ukrainian fire. “I also raised a number of other problems and expressed it all at the highest level frankly and extremely harshly,” Popov said in a voice note published to a Russian lawmaker’s Telegram channel. After airing his grievances, Popov said he was...

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...