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Despite its stout defence, Russia appeared to suffer from insubordination from top commanders.

A colleague of Major General Ivan Popov’s made his address to his troops public after he was dismissed from the command of the 58th CAA.

Popov had complained about shortcomings on the front facing a Ukrainian counteroffensive south of Orikhiv, in western Zaporizhia, directly to Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

Russian military reporters said he complained that his troops needed to be rotated because they had been serving on the front lines since October. But Popov revealed other weaknesses as well, in a translation of his remarks by independent news outlet Meduza.

“I didn’t sugarcoat it. I pinpointed the main tragedy of today’s warfare: the lack of counterbattery fire, the lack of artillery reconnaissance stations, and the mass death and mutilation of all our brothers by enemy artillery,” Popov was reported as having said, suggesting that Ukraine’s counteroffensive was taking a serious toll on Russian troops.

A series of senior commander dismissals led to speculation among Russian sources on July 15 that the Russian defence ministry may be preparing to arrest Airborne Forces (VDV) Commander Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky.

Russian military reporters posted an audio excerpt the following day, purporting to be elements of the 7th VDV Division threatening to withdraw from their positions in occupied Kherson if the Russian defence establishment arrested Teplinsky.

The dismissal of Popov and speculation over Teplinsky came after the Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin mutinied against the defence ministry command last month.

“Popov’s… Teplinsky’s and… Prigozhin’s challenges to [Chief of Staff Valery] Gerasimov’s and [defence minister Sergei] Shoigu’s authority have established a precedent for insubordination that can hollow out support for the Russian military command among senior officers,” said the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

@Pro-Putin l*natics, Russians troops are being decimated in the battlefield. Even the diehard Wagner fighters have said they won't fight in Ukraine anymore.

Ukraine would rather lose territory than men.

In the current counteroffensive, Ukraine have recovered territory in weeks that it took Russia months to claim

What a joke, to Ukraine military men they moved into a few empty settlements in the skirmish zone otherwise know as the GrayZone kilometres away from the actual Russian defensive lines,

they then retreated from most of them after waving a flag for the photo op before the Russians shelled them, its merely a propaganda stunt to try and placate the western backers of the proxy war,

these little moves will then be spun by the media to try and claim them as serious gains so they can try and use it to get more funding from nato lol... …. 🤷‍♂️

Kingsnairaland:
What a joke, to Ukraine military men they moved into a few empty settlements in the skirmish zone otherwise know as the GrayZone kilometres away from the actual Russian defensive lines,

they then retreated from most of them after waving a flag for the photo op before the Russians shelled them, its merely a propaganda stunt to try and placate the western backers of the proxy war,

these little moves will then be spun by the media to try and claim them as serious gains so they can try and use it to get more funding from nato lol... …. 🤷‍♂️

Did you read the post at all? It is the Russian official narrating there