Top Russian General Killed
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Several people have commented that there's no equivalent of "NCO" in the Russian army. There is no training to take the initiative or to improvise. EVERYTHING comes from the top..
The Russians have NCO ranks with similar responsibilities as their western counterparts. At least on paper that is. The difference though is that our NCOs have the authority to act upon their responsibilities. It is their duty and initiative in fulfillment of duty is expected of them. Russian NCOs appear to have rank but no authority. They have very prescribed duties to follow orders from above. As such, they can only be described as NCOs by rank and seniority.
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Ukrainian forces have killed two more Russian generals in a strike on a command post near occupied Kherson, authorities said Saturday. That would bring the total tally to at least nine since the start of Russia’s “special operation” against Ukraine on Feb. 24. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate announced the strike Saturday, saying the “crushing blow” was dealt to the operations center of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces. The command post, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence, “contrary to common sense… was located just a slight distance” from the front line in the Kherson region. A third Russian general was also severely wounded in the strike, they said. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, in an interview with former-lawyer-turned-journalist Mark Feygin on Saturday, said he thinks the third general “will not survive.” He said Ukrainian intelligence is still busy determining the identities of those killed, but there were some 50 high-ranking Russian officers at the command post at the time.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in Top Russian General Killed:
I worry about when they run out of most or all conventional weapons.
The anniversary thing is this week.
Please love yourself.
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9 May Victory Day foofah is next week.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Top Russian General Killed:
9 May Victory Day foofah is next week.
And the alleged Vladimir Vladimirovich's surgery will be delayed until that is over.
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U.S. Intelligence Is Helping Ukraine Kill Russian Generals, Officials Say
The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.
Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.
The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
Nice reporting NYT. This feeds the Russian propaganda perfectly.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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In the other other hand, you can be rest assured the Kremlin was fully aware select intelligence sharing with Ukraine was an open secret since well before 24 February. The US and Britain were declassifying intelligence on the Russian military build up along Ukraine’s borders since last fall and sharing it with global media. That level of open intelligence sharing, to my knowledge and recollection, was unprecedented. It appears to have thrown the Russians off and possibly even delayed the invasion. This openness with intelligence has become one of the unique characteristics of this war.
In any case what can the Russians do about it now? Complain about interference? Provoke them to attack US and British targets? Escalate their blundering offensives in Ukraine?
Nothing new here.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@George-K said in Top Russian General Killed:
Interesting. The strike that killed #10 had a different target in mind.
Is it just me, or do a significant number of top Russian generals look like raging alcoholics?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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If they were not drunkards before this war, I assure they are now or, at the very least, well on their way to becoming so.
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@Renauda said in Top Russian General Killed:
In the other other hand, you can be rest assured the Kremlin was fully aware select intelligence sharing with Ukraine was an open secret since well before 24 February.
Of course they were. And it would silly to think it weren't the case.
This openness with intelligence has become one of the unique characteristics of this war.
On the part of the intelligence communities, I'd agree. The fact that "The Paper of Record" is reporting it is a wholly different issue, and, as I said, feeds into Putin's propaganda: "Look at what the New York Times just admitted!"
In any case what can the Russians do about it now? Complain about interference? Provoke them to attack US and British targets? Escalate their blundering offensives in Ukraine?
Not a thing other than shake their fist at the sky and complain, more loudly, claiming verification by the US media.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I really don’t see how the article feeds the Kremlin propaganda machine any more than supplying Ukraine with munitions and sanctions on the economy and its citizens. The Russians can say what they wish; they have been saying that the West meddles for the past century. It is ingrained in the public consciousness there. And in the West, no one of any consequence cares.
It merely confirms that at this stage, there is a unified resolve in NATO to assist Ukrainian defence in any way possible short of direct military intervention.
Welcome back to Cold War rules of engagement. It will be a fun ride.
