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December 17, 2021
“Russia demands NATO roll back from East Europe and stay out of Ukraine“
“”He was a crazy idiot.” Putin dismissed the general who failed the offensive on Vuhledar
Colonel General Rustam Muradov was dismissed from his post as commander of the Eastern Military District and removed from command in Ukraine just 7 months after his appointment, two military sources told The Moscow Times.
Muradov, a former commander of Russian forces in Syria and then head of the peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh, was fired after a failed offensive in eastern Ukraine.
In Vuhledar in February, Muradov sent the army into minefields and under Ukrainian artillery fire, losing two elite brigades of marines and 103 pieces of equipment, including 36 tanks (according to Oryx calculations), in three days. At the same time, the AFU lost only 20 pieces of equipment.
But despite casualties estimated by the British Defense Ministry at 500 men a day, the army suffered a fiasco. “Muradov was suspended because he was a crazy idiot who is capable of ordering soldiers to go to certain death. A lot of people complained about him,” the interlocutor told The Moscow Times.”
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