Putin Fires Five Generals as Russia's Military Failures in Ukraine Continue

[NJCher]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired five generals and one police colonel, according to a report from Moscow-based media group RBC, amid the country's military failures in Ukraine.

Putin reportedly issued a decree on Monday that saw five generals at the Russian Ministry of the Internal Affairs dismissed from their posts in what one unnamed official said was part of a personnel rotation.

The report comes as the Russian invasion of Ukraine nears its 100th day and Putin's forces have suffered serious military setbacks, failing to take the capital city of Kyiv and facing fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military.

Those fired included Major General of Police Vasily Kukushkin, who was head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vladimir region; Major General Alexander Laas, deputy head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory and Major General Andrey Lipilin, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Yaroslavl Region.

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[Sanity Claws]

1. Being fired sure beats being dead in the Ukraine

Maybe these guys should consider themselves lucky.

[Javaman]

2. getting fired in russia, i don't believe, is like getting fired here...

I have a feeling, that while they were fired, they are also having an extended vacation at their local gulag.

[Chainfire]

5. When Putin fires you, he sends the personnel director, Mr. Napalm.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. or. . . Mr. Polonium Tea , Mr. Anti-Aircraft Battery , Mr. Fourth Floor Balcony , etc

[NJCher]

22. Mr. Acid Facial

eom

[cstanleytech]

14. Beats *assisted* suicide from a tall building I guess.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. How's your "Special Military Operation " going, Pootie?

Not so good?

[FakeNoose]

4. Pootie did those Generals a favor

Adolf Hitler would have marched them to the firing squad.

[SergeStorms]

6. Those who should worry...

are the poor souls being promoted to General of the Russian Army.

These five Generals got off lucky. The next Generals will probably be sent to the front.

[IronLionZion]

7. The buck stops somewhere else right Vlad?

Maybe dude should fire himself. Resign in disgrace. Call it retirement or whatever.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. I predict . . .

. . . within 6 months each of these will either (1) fall out of a sixth-story window, or, (2) drop dead of an unknown malady, or, (3) take a squirt of poison in the face and drop dead on the street, or, (4) shoot himself (in the back of the head no less).

[Warpy]

11. Fifth story

Soviet era building regulations said anything taller than five stories had to have an elevator. That's whymost building stop at five stories.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. that's what I thought immediately. "Fired" ain't the end of it.

[Warpy]

9. The must've told him the truth

Dugin is full of shit and Ukraine is an unwinnable war.

[lpbk2713]

10. Getting more like Adolph all the time.

Maybe some time soon he will isolate himself in his bunker and end it all.

[Hugin]

12. Must be like eating potato chips...

Well, if it makes him happy. Throw another General on the fire, Vlad.

[yellowcanine]

16. Between getting killed, fired, or quitting, he must be running out of generals.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Counting both fired and killed generals, do we have a good number of missing generals?

[soldierant]

20. What in blazes happened to

his cancer treatment that was going to occupy him to the point that he appointed a deputy to fill in?

It's like the Latinx magician who announced he would disappear on the count of three. He counted "uno - dos -" and then vanished without a "tres."

[lastlib]

21. Hitler did this......

...can we hope for a similar bunker scene soon?

Or could another general feed him a polonium sammich? w/ Novichok tea for good measure?

[haele]

23. Hmm, they weren't able to mobilize enough recruits in those regions?

Or perhaps they weren't able to get war manufacturing ramped up quickly enough.
They could also be "untrustworthy", especially if there's a political undercurrent in parts of Russia that might be perfectly okay if somehow parts of resource rich Siberia broke off to become it's own -'stan.

These are regional Generals from the Internal Ministry. Not "directing the Special Operations/War" type Generals.

Haele

[Martin Eden]

24. The Russian oligarchs should fire Putin

By firing squad.