Sixth Russian General killed

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[mitch96]

1. It looks like if putin wants to get rid of a general, just send him to UKRAINE!!! nt

[Botany]

2. I think US and or NATO intel is helping the Ukrainian forces with information on where and when the

... Russian Generals are. If the Russian troops want to stop being slaughter they know what they
have to do.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. For this thread

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[Sanity Claws]

4. THat is the first of the 5 listed in the OP, right?

[3Hotdogs]

5. Russia: From 2nd most powerful military in the world,

to 2nd most powerful military in Ukraine.

[reACTIONary]

12. +10 nt

[paleotn]

16. It was all hype, slick arms sales advertising and the usual western histeria.....

about Russian might dating back to the 50's. A Potemkin military once again. Not the first time the Russians have fooled the west into thinking their military is something it's not.

I've been calling them a paper tiger since December and caught huge amounts of flack over it. Turns out the Russians are true to form and a number of analysts who don't fall for slick hype were right.

[llashram]

24. yep

got to wear your flak jacket, all times Russian military ain't all that as the paper tiger Pukin has proven to the world.

[LiberalFighter]

27. I'm putting that out there.

[2naSalit]

6. K&R

[dalton99a]

7. A Russian general a week keeps the Russians away

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Could it be the sniper is the Canadian sniper who came over and joined up?

From earlier:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216463328

"Wali"

[Mariana]

23. Maybe so, but I think the Russian generals were already falling

before that sniper arrived arrived in Ukraine.

[Eyeball_Kid]

31. Credit goes to UKR. It's unlikely that they have to import snipers to pick off generals.

Although having a few extra specialists in their ranks certainly doesn't hurt.

[Alien Life Form]

9. Its so nice to wake up to such pleasant news!

[rpannier]

10. He shall not be missed by many

Hopefully he fell face first.
That way he could see where he was headed in the afterlife as he dropped

[louis-t]

25. Hopefully he had sunflower seeds in his pocket.....

[Farmer-Rick]

11. You don't put your top Generals on the front lines.

Unless you think they aren't very good and need to be upfront to control everything.

If Putin is a micromanaging dictator, he would see himself as the controlling power behind the troops. So, he does not want or need his Generals' advice and strategic experience. He needs managers up front because Putin isn't going out to get himself killed.

Dictators always think they know better than anyone else. So, Generals are kind of useless to a dictator. Especially if a good Generals earns the loyalty and respect of the troops. Then they are a threat to the dictator's power and control.

[ouija]

13. Sounds familiar

[Bucky]

14. I would suggest that this invasion probably looks more like Iraq or Vietnam

Meaning it's not a World War I type trench warfare where there are clearly delineated "front lines." A lot of what's going on in Ukraine right now is urban warfare and maneuvering their tank and APC convoys around suburbs and small towns. Any officer out in the open can become a target.

[Farmer-Rick]

19. Yeah, it's urban warfare in many areas

Of course there are no trenches.

But you know where the fighting is. You know where most of the action is going down. You know the war zone, it changes hourly sometimes, and you don't send your top troop leaders there to die and lose all that strategic information they have acquired.

Unless you don't really feel you need them. Then yeah, run them through the road you know is under sniper surveillance. That's when you make them establish headquarters in an area that has not been secured. You shouldn't leave your Generals out in the open to become targets.

This could also be due to overconfidence. You think it will be easy and you don't take proper precautions. But this shouldn't have happened 5 times. You should have learned after the first dead General.

These so called Generals are doing what we would probably have Colonel's, or 0-6's doing, maybe even 0-5's. (Of course now a days we would probably just use mercenaries) We don't have a dictatorship so Generals are usually fully trained and necessary for war. We want them to inspire and lead troops, at least we use to before Cheney.

[NCjack]

21. Early death of young senior generals greatly reduces the funding required for retirement benefits.

[Farmer-Rick]

38. Well, that's one way of doing it

He, he....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Comms problems & logistics snafus require Russ generals at the front to untangle them. . nt

[GregariousGroundhog]

34. One of Russia's problems is that the generals are on the front line and don't have a choice

Russian generals need to be on the front line for two reasons. The first is that Russia made the mistake of blowing up most of Ukraine's cell towers in the early days of the war; it was reported maybe a week or so ago that this has been problematic for Russia since their encrypted communication channels rely on 3g and/or 4g cell phone service. The second is that war is going poorly and there is immense pressure from the top to straighten everything out. Sitting in the rear doing nothing because their communications are out isn't going to get a general a very good performance review.

[Farmer-Rick]

37. Yeah,

Putin really didn't think this war through. He's like a toddler throwing a tantrum.

What a waste of human life all around.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. Dead general of the day

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[Lonestarblue]

15. The more generals who bite the dust, the better.

Zelensky is correct in saying that they need air support to stop the missiles. It seems they could easily defeat the ground forces if they and their cities were’t being bombed constantly. I’m hoping that US intelligence can tell them exactly where the missiles are coming from, so they can use donated weapons to taken out the source, at least the ground-based ones. The worrisome ones are those fired from ships on the Black Sea, like the ones that hit Lviv yesterday. I have no clue how you take those out without a direct attack on the ships. News reports showed several ships hovering off the coast of Odessa like vultures.

[HariSeldon]

26. I think Zelenskyy might be intentionally asking for the wrong thing

Additional air power might be nice, but two things he rarely -- if ever -- mentions will make way more difference: counter-missiles (like the S-300s which are on their way) and counter-battery weapons. Ukrainian forces have been doing great work with the anti-tank missiles, but those have a hard time finding artillery. I thought I read somewhere that Ukraine is getting some counter-batteries, too.

So the S-300s will take down many missiles (Patriots would do better, but require too much training) and counter-batteries to take the fight back to the howitzers being used to commit war crimes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Counter battery weapons have already been delivered and more on the way. . . nt

[Danascot]

35. Send the Ukrainian farmers

some amphibious tractors.

[niyad]

17. Looking at the word "eliminated" in quotes has me wondering. Fragged?

[Liberal In Texas]

18. No. I've noticed "eliminated" is one of the terms used by Ukraine for killed or destroyed.

[L. Coyote]

20. Colonel Sergey Sukharev eliminated in Ukraine.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. Thanks for the confirmation

[llashram]

22. find 'em kill 'em

[Slammer]

28. Russian generals

Wow, the Ukrainians are serious when they take the 5th.

[COL Mustard]

32. Promotion through assassination

I've never heard of it on this scale, though!

[Upthevibe]

33. Kick. N/T

[Josiesdad]

36. Nope... no high end plot involving omnipotent foreign intel agencies...

Rather, it is a consequence of Russia's fubar'd logistics efforts. When the supply column stalls because the enemy disables the lead vehicles... Morale plummets as the drivers try to hide their tanks and supply trucks behind trees (or get mired in the mud)... desertions spike... the general staff orders the unit commander to visit the line, unsnarl the mess and get the convoy moving. Obviously he cannot do that from a rear area. The Ukrainian sniper on over-watch notes the arrival and announces his presence with a single shot.

~Or perhaps I am reading to many Ukrainian Press Releases~

[Beetwasher.]

46. I think this is the work of top notch intel coordinating with bad ass snipers

The whole Russian military is almost certainly riddled with Ukranians. Target locations are being dialed right in to sniper teams.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

39. I wonder who will kill the most Russian generals: Zelenskyy or Putin?

There are consequences for moving slower than expected. In any army.

[Cha]

40. Rt 💕🐱‍🏍TY & the Ukrainian

Sniper.

💙💛

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. The Russians are losing so many generals they're gonna have to call up Mike Flynn from the bullpen

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43. Russian Fleet Commander, Andrey Palin, has been Shot Dead by Ukrainian defense forces.

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44. Another Russian General has been killed

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[Beetwasher.]

47. Top Notch Intel + Badass Snipers Equals Lot's of Dead Russian Command Staff

I'd bet a dollar the whole Russian military is riddled, top to bottom, with Ukranian intel operatives and assets. Locations are being dialed in directly to sniper teams. You don't rack up a count like this without an awesome, well organized system. Ukranians are getting shit done. I'm blown away by how effective they are.

Imagine being command staff in the Russian army right now. Sucks to be you.