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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 03:56 PM Jan 2023

Pooty Poot Fires Kherson General As Divisions Fester In Russian Leadership

Vladimir Putin's military top brass is facing further ructions following the dismissal of one of his main commanders in Ukraine, British defense officials have said.

Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky had been commander of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) since June 2022. He had won plaudits in Russia as a capable leader who had charged with Russia's relatively successful withdrawal in November from the west of the Dnieper River that bisects the Kherson oblast.

However, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said in its daily update on Tuesday that Teplinsky has likely been dismissed, reiterating what had been reported on Russian social-media sites on January 13.

Two days earlier, Putin put the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov in charge of the Ukraine campaign, taking over from Sergey Surovikin, who had overseen the invasion only since October.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-fires-kherson-general-as-divisions-fester-in-russian-leadership-mod/ar-AA16GJ8f

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Pooty Poot Fires Kherson General As Divisions Fester In Russian Leadership (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2023 OP
"Teplinsky has likely been dismissed" Best_man23 Jan 2023 #1
With the generals killed by Ukraine, the ones that fell from windows and the ones he fired doc03 Jan 2023 #2

Best_man23

(4,898 posts)
1. "Teplinsky has likely been dismissed"
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 05:29 PM
Jan 2023

Hopefully, he didn't succumb to "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome" or was given the offer to "avoid the Red Tape."

doc03

(35,346 posts)
2. With the generals killed by Ukraine, the ones that fell from windows and the ones he fired
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 05:44 PM
Jan 2023

he has to running out of officers.

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