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Truly, truly amazing how they keep losing senior officers because they’re right at the front lines
For perspective, can anyone guesstimate how many soldiers of his rank Russia would have fighting in Ukraine. If he really is in charge of the West sector then it could be as little as 4 or 5 given that Russia seems to have divided its armies into their compass point positions, from North clockwise round to South. Lots of guesswork there though.
Russias military is dividend into 5 military districts, Western, Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern so their should be 5 officers of his rank. There have been reports that the troops fighting in Ukraine from the Eastern and Souther districts have been merged due to the losses sustained but that is still unconfirmed.
3 army Lieutenant Generals (East, Central, West) and 2 aerospace forces Lieutenant Generals. Their army forced in the South district for the invasion were commanded by a Colonel General.
Thanks for that info, seems like a big fish to catch.
There’s an interesting twitter feed that I can’t seem to link to, suggesting that his capture makes it likely that his forward HQ has been overrun, which should give the UAF some absolutely vital information about Russian army strengths, size, battle plans etc. I don’t know enough about warfare to know whether this is true but it certainly could be way bigger than the capture of the man himself.
If it is him, yes that would be a big catch. So far the only evidence is the picture you posted and although it looks like him, Ukrainian officials has not confirmed anything yet.
Found this reply to the tweet quite funny:
If the fella in charge of operations in that part of Ukraine worked out of somewhere in a liberated area, you'd imagine he needed to have access to some kind of intel or at least comms. Otherwise I don't know how he could do his job. Not that the Russians have been particularly great at doing their jobs in general, mind.
A very big fish.
I should add, there are more Russian Lieutenant Generals in Ukraine, but they are in subordinate commands to the ones posted above.
I was absolutely convinced by looking at the photographs, they have too many identical features. Could be wrong of course, we may not know for months. I’d expect Ukraine to want to keep this as quiet as possible for as long as possible; the only thing in military intelligence more dangerous than a known security leak is an unknown security leak, surely?
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That reply is fecking brilliant.
Izium is in real danger to be encircled and cut off completely, I’m speechless. Let’s pray for as few losses as possible for Ukrainian armed forces in this counteroffensive.
Apparently, Putin to hold an emergency operational Security Council meeting Today due to a threat of 10-15k Russian troops being cut off in Kharkiv.
Probably just desperate to defect.
This week has been utterly wild.
Is this a troll Girkin account? So many followers & he has been around since 2014... I don't really follow him and I know that he's been heavily critical of Russian army but it still doesn't seem like something he would post.
Heartwarming stuff.
Fascinating how many news we get out of Kharkiv when we were expecting the big offensive to happen around Kherson. Ukraine really pulls of somthing surprising there.
I don’t know how to link it but the map showing the UA advance is nuts if accurate. The Russian’s seemingly had no second lines of defence and have just collapsed.
He's running out of options and is probably weighing either escalating or looking to preserve what he has by entrenching a long term frozen conflict (for which he won't have the resources to maintain for too long).
It’s a parody account in his name. The guy who runs it is Ukrainian as far as I can tell.
Makes sense.
Where are the weirdos that told us Russia could storm through Ukraine AND Poland in a week if it really tried 
How many Russian Generals have bit the dust in this conflict now ? Just shows how terrible Putin's military is where they have to repeatedly put their Generals in harms way.
Still in Kremlin! Or in a bunker somewhere to be more precise.Where are the weirdos that told us Russia could storm through Ukraine AND Poland in a week if it really tried
@harms basically a tank yeah
Aye. Don't get in his way or else there will be trouble.
The Ukrainian attack seems crazy good. Guess it shows both the russian ineptitude and the Ukrainian bravery and good training, but also that HIMARS are really, really good artillery tech. They have been bombarding the russian positions and ammunition depos for weeks before the assault.
No defensive preparations were done as I think their commander in chief is still in denial about their attacking capacity, the mindset has not shifted yet to the defensive line of thinking.
This is from Russian Telegram channel Rybar. If it's real the Russians in Izyum are now cut off from any resupplies.
The Kupyansk thing is crazy.
the first clip is very sweet and quite emotional. Her little jump when she realises they are Ukrainians. I can only imagine how that felt.
the old man is more like my father than my father is. The mannerisms, how he walks with his arms out, his smile, handshake, the fact that this is how he responds to the situation in that way, even the coat and hat…it honestly couldn’t be more similar. It is a little bizarre but I can’t take my eyes off of him
Sadly, I can't enjoy this as much as I would like.
This might be slightly off-topic, but not completely, and I'm just going to write it here to show you how difficult it is to deal with Russian satellite states.
As most of you are probably well aware by now, Bosnia is made od two entities, one of which (Republic of Srpska) is completely pro-Russian. Serbs gained it in 1992-1995 war, effectively splitting country in two parts, and the separation is visible in every possible way. To cut the long story short, Serbs have a long term goal of separating from Bosnia, and in order to do so, they are attempting to prove every day that coexistence is impossible.
Serbia is Russian ally, and has instigated a lot of political unrest in Bosnia, Kosovo and Montenegro recently, with a long term goal of creating Greater Serbia, a country in which all Serbs would live. Of course, it has large parts of neighbouring countries in it.
Now, as I said, nothing is immune to this political divide. Bosniaks and Croats (well, mostly) are pro-European, pro-EU and pro-NATO, as we are well aware that it is our only way of survival to integrate into Europe and western civilization. But we can't make any decision without acceptance of Serbs. And they are not pro EU and are definitely anti-NATO, spewing some neutrality shite and hoping that Serbia will one day walk in there and liberate them the same way Russia is liberating Ukraine. Infact, there are lot of similarities in Russian and Serbian propaganda and war doctrine.
Information has come out today that Bosnian FA has accepted invitation from Russia to play a friendly in november in St. Petersburg. That was made possible by the fact that FA is now run by Serbs due to the rotation policy in Presidency. Vico Zeljkovic is president now, he is nephew of Serbian leader Milorad Dodik and yields a great amount of power. Dodik is Putin's lapdog.
I know football is not important, but this is football forum and I'm taking a wild guess many will see in november that Bosnia is playing Russia and take a guess that we are pro-Russian oriented. I just wanted to move your attention to the fact that we aren't. At least majority isn't. Serbs are. And their attempts to break away from Bosnia are well supported by Russia.
Once again, someone may dismiss this writing as bollocks and offtopic, but to me it isn't. I see this as just another step in attempting to cut us off from west and keep us in Russian sphere of interest. We don't want that, we need people to know where we stand but also that our hands are tied.
This might be slightly off-topic, but not completely, and I'm just going to write it here to show you how difficult it is to deal with Russian satellite states.
As most of you are probably well aware by now, Bosnia is made od two entities, one of which (Republic of Srpska) is completely pro-Russian. Serbs gained it in 1992-1995 war, effectively splitting country in two parts, and the separation is visible in every possible way. To cut the long story short, Serbs have a long term goal of separating from Bosnia, and in order to do so, they are attempting to prove every day that coexistence is impossible.
Serbia is Russian ally, and has instigated a lot of political unrest in Bosnia, Kosovo and Montenegro recently, with a long term goal of creating Greater Serbia, a country in which all Serbs would live. Of course, it has large parts of neighbouring countries in it.
Now, as I said, nothing is immune to this political divide. Bosniaks and Croats (well, mostly) are pro-European, pro-EU and pro-NATO, as we are well aware that it is our only way of survival to integrate into Europe and western civilization. But we can't make any decision without acceptance of Serbs. And they are not pro EU and are definitely anti-NATO, spewing some neutrality shite and hoping that Serbia will one day walk in there and liberate them the same way Russia is liberating Ukraine. Infact, there are lot of similarities in Russian and Serbian propaganda and war doctrine.
Information has come out today that Bosnian FA has accepted invitation from Russia to play a friendly in november in St. Petersburg. That was made possible by the fact that FA is now run by Serbs due to the rotation policy in Presidency. Vico Zeljkovic is president now, he is nephew of Serbian leader Milorad Dodik and yields a great amount of power. Dodik is Putin's lapdog.
I know football is not important, but this is football forum and I'm taking a wild guess many will see in november that Bosnia is playing Russia and take a guess that we are pro-Russian oriented. I just wanted to move your attention to the fact that we aren't. At least majority isn't. Serbs are. And their attempts to break away from Bosnia are well supported by Russia.
Once again, someone may dismiss this writing as bollocks and offtopic, but to me it isn't. I see this as just another step in attempting to cut us off from west and keep us in Russian sphere of interest. We don't want that, we need people to know where we stand but also that our hands are tied.
Thanks for this post. Interesting and informative about a part of the world I am sure many on here know very little about
This is from Russian Telegram channel Rybar. If it's real the Russians in Izyum are now cut off from any resupplies.
How would they be cut off from supplies ? The map seems to indicate there is plenty of Russian controlled territory to the east of Izyum.
Kupiansk is a major trainhub in the region, the biggest in fact it seems. So cut off from direct supplies from Russia.