A senior Russian general has been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine, Russian sources have said.
Lt Gen Oleg Tsokov is said to have died in a strike on a hotel housing Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, on Ukraine's occupied southern coast.
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Lt Gen Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia's southern military district. Ms Skabeyeva who presents a talk show on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel said he was killed by a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile.
That doesn't say much for Russian OPSEC that Ukrainians were able to determine where Russian senior officers were spending the night and then blow the shit out of the building.
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Well, if a reporter can access your fitness app and you run the same route every other day...
Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision in 2020 to promote a little-known commander came as a surprise to many. But inside the services Kyrylo Budanov’s name was already legendary.
The 37-year-old General Budanov, a former commando, is Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. As the architect of increasingly brazen operations within Russia, he is also a big irritant for the Kremlin.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/06/20/ukraines-spymaster-has-got-under-the-kremlins-skin
If this is paywalled and I can be contacted on the alternate bat channel.
Odd. It hit a paywall, but googling the headline in Chrome got the full story.
Not necessarily odd, it's hard to know what is freely available for a subscription service these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5jfv9hXI2U&t=1s
The sadness of it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtQ9gu_NmA
Question: Who supplies uniforms for Russian generals?
Answer: Target
Killing their own generals has been an enduring if sporadic habit for Moscow, too.
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