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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukraine claims it killed another Russian general, other senior officers near Kharkiv
2022-03-08
[CNBC] 2nd in command of Russian 41st Army is getting to be as hazardous as 3rd in command of Al Qaeda.
  • Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency claimed that Russian Army Major General Vitaly Gerasimov was killed, and other senior Russian Army officers "were also killed or wounded" near Kharkiv.

  • Gerasimov was identified by the intelligence agency as the chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army.

  • The agency claimed that data obtained related to his death "show significant problems with communication" in Russia’s army, "and with the evacuation of their defeated units."

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin last week confirmed the death of another army general, Andrei Sukhovetsky.
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Posted by:Angaiper Ulavins1210

#15  It would be a shame if they assassinated one of the inept ones that got their armored columns stuck.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-03-08 14:48  

#14  M.M.,

Major General Keith Ware in 'Nam.

Maj. Gen. Ware commanded the 1st Infantry Division and was killed in action on Sept. 13, 1968 during the Battle of Loc Ninh
Posted by: No Fortunate Son   2022-03-08 14:13  

#13  My original question was "Last American general to die on the front lines." It's almost like the thread was immediately and purposely mis-directed.

As good as the discussions are here, that does happen sometimes.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-03-08 14:02  

#12  OK, Schwarzkopf, 31 years ago. I'm not saying it's a bad thing if you have no generals who have won a war...only if you have as many wars as we have had.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-03-08 13:53  

#11  What sort of arms race would there have been if we weren't worried about the commie bomb?
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-03-08 13:39  

#10  We were never supposed to have an empire. After WW II, we tried to redirect to shiny cars, bbq grilles, tract housing and Marilyn Monroe. But some people in various places didn't relate.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-03-08 13:37  

#9  Ike.

Who when president successfully avoided letting the US get dragged into stupid wars over first Hungary and then Britain and France's Suez fiasco. Which led to the collapse of their empires within just 4 years.

Now we're the shitheads who are destroying our own empire. Hard to believe our own idiots are not trying to bring America down. No pro-American leader could be so fucking stupid
Posted by: No Fortunate Son   2022-03-08 13:33  

#8  Was that a war or a setup?
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-03-08 13:20  

#7  Schwarzkopf
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-08 13:19  

#6  ^ Last American general who won a war?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-03-08 12:12  

#5  Last American general killed on the front lines? Bueller? Anyone?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-08 11:39  

#4  Does the warranty cover being blown up?
Posted by: Chris   2022-03-08 11:31  

#3  ^ Yeah, but he might really want to extend the warranties on his T-72's.
Posted by: Matt   2022-03-08 10:22  

#2  One assumes that his boss is now getting tons of spam phone calls...
Posted by: 3dc   2022-03-08 09:47  

#1  They know they killed him because their comms were not up to the job of calling back to base so they used a cell phone to call his boss. Remember the Ukrainian hackers got the cellular phone numbers and other info for every single Russian in the Russian military. Ukraine even published both phone numbers (caller and callee) who were involve in the death report and the time and duration of the call.
Posted by: 3dc   2022-03-08 09:45  

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