Top Russian General Killed
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Black Sea fleet deputy commander killed in Ukraine
So u think the Ukrainians are getting real time intel on the location of top officers and picking them off, or just bad luck?
A lot of high ranking officers dead in the course of three weeks.
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From that same piece, more good news if it's true. A battalion of Belarus troops has gone over to fight for Mariupol.
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From that same piece, more good news if it's true. A battalion of Belarus troops has gone over to fight for Mariupol.
I saw a piece about this yesterday. These are volunteers of Belorussians living abroad and are against the Lukashenka regime. Not all that different than the Canadian volunteer brigades forming here and going over to Ukraine.
I have also read though, that Minsk is hesitant to send in its own troops to assist the Russians for fear of them mutinying and joining with the Ukrainian defenders.
Elbows up!
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Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight. He said it was pretty chaotic right now. The personnel situation is very fluid, with guys coming in every day and no weapons or equipment to issue them.
Right now, a warm, dry floor to sleep on and a field ration or two per day was what they were getting. Hopefully, that gets untangled pretty quick.
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Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight. He said it was pretty chaotic right now. The personnel situation is very fluid, with guys coming in every day and no weapons or equipment to issue them.
Right now, a warm, dry floor to sleep on and a field ration or two per day was what they were getting. Hopefully, that gets untangled pretty quick.
@Jolly said in Top Russian General Killed:
Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight.
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
Education is extremely important.
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@Jolly said in Top Russian General Killed:
Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight.
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
@Jolly said in Top Russian General Killed:
Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight.
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
Happened plenty of times before. Battle of Britain, etc.
I tend to think of the Abe Lincoln Brigade...
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.htmlUsually the country they are fighting for sets up some kind of apparatus to acknowledge their volunteer status and either assigns them to a regular army unit or assigns them to a company or brigade of volunteers. An article with Ukraine's website:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/want-to-go-fight-in-ukraineheres-how-to-apply/ -
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Black Sea fleet deputy commander killed in Ukraine
So u think the Ukrainians are getting real time intel on the location of top officers and picking them off, or just bad luck?
A lot of high ranking officers dead in the course of three weeks.
@bachophile said in Top Russian General Killed:
Black Sea fleet deputy commander killed in Ukraine
So u think the Ukrainians are getting real time intel on the location of top officers and picking them off, or just bad luck?
A lot of high ranking officers dead in the course of three weeks.
I've commented in another thread wondering the same thing. The Ukrainians have been claiming that they've stopped "hit squads" after Zelensky thanks to intel leaks from the FSB and even the SVR. It makes you wonder if that has anything to do with the heads of the various agencies being replaced and in some cases placed on house arrest?
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I saw a piece about this yesterday. These are volunteers of Belorussians living abroad and are against the Lukashenka regime. Not all that different than the Canadian volunteer brigades forming here and going over to Ukraine.
I have also read though, that Minsk is hesitant to send in its own troops to assist the Russians for fear of them mutinying and joining with the Ukrainian defenders.
@Renauda said in Top Russian General Killed:
I saw a piece about this yesterday. These are volunteers of Belorussians living abroad and are against the Lukashenka regime. Not all that different than the Canadian volunteer brigades forming here and going over to Ukraine.
I have also read though, that Minsk is hesitant to send in its own troops to assist the Russians for fear of them mutinying and joining with the Ukrainian defenders.
I thought that I had read that they actually had tried but some officers actually flat out refused?
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@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
Russia should stop storming cities with their generals on the front lines.
Maybe they watched LOTR.
@Klaus said in Top Russian General Killed:
@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
Russia should stop storming cities with their generals on the front lines.
Maybe they watched LOTR.
That was a low percentage move.
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@Jolly said in Top Russian General Killed:
Read an interview with a former U.S. Marine that had volunteered to fight.
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
I had an uncle that retired and then joined the Israeli army.
He was among the first troops into Nagasaki after the bomb, then he had a career in insurance. He was Irish Catholic, but married a Jewish woman who died young from cancer. I believe joining the Israeli army was a gift to her.
Anyway, Israel had this program for foreigners to volunteer. I don't know if they still do. In his 60s I don't think he did any shooting, I think it was mostly administrative work.
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@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
I had an uncle that retired and then joined the Israeli army.
He was among the first troops into Nagasaki after the bomb, then he had a career in insurance. He was Irish Catholic, but married a Jewish woman who died young from cancer. I believe joining the Israeli army was a gift to her.
Anyway, Israel had this program for foreigners to volunteer. I don't know if they still do. In his 60s I don't think he did any shooting, I think it was mostly administrative work.
@Copper said in Top Russian General Killed:
@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
I had an uncle that retired and then joined the Israeli army.
He was among the first troops into Nagasaki after the bomb, then he had a career in insurance. He was Irish Catholic, but married a Jewish woman who died young from cancer. I believe joining the Israeli army was a gift to her.
Anyway, Israel had this program for foreigners to volunteer. I don't know if they still do. In his 60s I don't think he did any shooting, I think it was mostly administrative work.
cool.
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Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action
The deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been killed in battle near the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the Kremlin-installed governor of the Russia-occupied city of Sevastopol said.
"Captain 1st Rank Andrei Nikolayevich Paly was killed in the fighting [near Mariupol]," Mikhail Razvozhayev said on his Telegram channel.
Reports said the general was 51 years old.
The Russian Navy did not respond to a request for comment.
Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimea Peninsula, is the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.
If confirmed, it would mark the latest fatality among Russia’s top military officers following reports of several being killed in action during the invasion of Ukraine.
On March 19, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed that the commander of the Russian Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, had been killed at the Chornobaivka airfield near the city of Kherson.
The Ukrainian Presidency at the time said the general was the fifth top-ranking officer killed since the invasion began on February 24, an unprecedented number of fatalities among a military leadership in such a short period of time.
The claims could not be independently confirmed.
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Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action
The deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been killed in battle near the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the Kremlin-installed governor of the Russia-occupied city of Sevastopol said.
"Captain 1st Rank Andrei Nikolayevich Paly was killed in the fighting [near Mariupol]," Mikhail Razvozhayev said on his Telegram channel.
Reports said the general was 51 years old.
The Russian Navy did not respond to a request for comment.
Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimea Peninsula, is the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.
If confirmed, it would mark the latest fatality among Russia’s top military officers following reports of several being killed in action during the invasion of Ukraine.
On March 19, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed that the commander of the Russian Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, had been killed at the Chornobaivka airfield near the city of Kherson.
The Ukrainian Presidency at the time said the general was the fifth top-ranking officer killed since the invasion began on February 24, an unprecedented number of fatalities among a military leadership in such a short period of time.
The claims could not be independently confirmed.
@George-K said in Top Russian General Killed:
Deputy Commander Of Russia's Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action
The deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been killed in battle near the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the Kremlin-installed governor of the Russia-occupied city of Sevastopol said.
"Captain 1st Rank Andrei Nikolayevich Paly was killed in the fighting [near Mariupol]," Mikhail Razvozhayev said on his Telegram channel.
Reports said the general was 51 years old.
The Russian Navy did not respond to a request for comment.
Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimea Peninsula, is the base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Crimea was seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.
If confirmed, it would mark the latest fatality among Russia’s top military officers following reports of several being killed in action during the invasion of Ukraine.
On March 19, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed that the commander of the Russian Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, had been killed at the Chornobaivka airfield near the city of Kherson.
The Ukrainian Presidency at the time said the general was the fifth top-ranking officer killed since the invasion began on February 24, an unprecedented number of fatalities among a military leadership in such a short period of time.
The claims could not be independently confirmed.
A Naval Commander sounds a little less unusual. My bet is he was on one of the ships attacking the city?
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@Horace said in Top Russian General Killed:
What's the process for a random American with military experience to volunteer to fight in another country's war?
I had an uncle that retired and then joined the Israeli army.
He was among the first troops into Nagasaki after the bomb, then he had a career in insurance. He was Irish Catholic, but married a Jewish woman who died young from cancer. I believe joining the Israeli army was a gift to her.
Anyway, Israel had this program for foreigners to volunteer. I don't know if they still do. In his 60s I don't think he did any shooting, I think it was mostly administrative work.
@Copper actually they do but as opposed to the past, they screen and vet carefully to avoid having crazies coming to wreak havoc.
