Waiting For General's Speech: AFU Defeat Largest Russian Army Formation Near Kreminna

HIMARS hit Russians as they stood in line.

Russian soldiers have been killed en masse by Ukrainian artillery fire near Kreminna (Luhansk region) while standing in line at the front waiting for a general. This was reported by Russian "military bloggers". They do not give an exact death toll, but note that for several days the number of dead and wounded exceeded the casualties in the fighting towards Yuzhnodonetsk, reports The Moscow Times.

"Near Kreminna, a tragic incident occurred in one of the divisions that was about to go on the offensive. People stood in a crowd for two hours waiting for the division commander to say his motivational word," Rybar writes. Instead of the general, the military met Ukrainian HIMARS and artillery, he sums up.

"Standing in line for two hours! What are you doing, father commanders, you are in charge of people," the author of the Two Majors channel said indignantly. "If, in the middle of the second year of the war, there are commanders who take their columns to the front, make a big pile of personnel and then wait for the enemy's artillery to strike, such commanders must be shot," says the channel Starshe Eddy. Zapiski Michmana Ptichkina writes that the matter concerns the 20th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army. This is the largest unit in the Russian army.

Z-bloggers do not mention the name of the commander, but the Povernutye na vojne channel published a photo of Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov. Together with his colleague Rustam Muradov, he previously controlled the Vostok Group of Forces and the coastal troops of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet.

The brigade had previously written an open letter to the governor of the Primorsky Krai. It said that "General Muradov and his compatriot Akhmedov" may have lost up to 400 men in an attempt to receive the title of Hero of Russia in Pavlivka. Muradov became scandalously famous for sending the military into mines near Ugledar, causing massive losses of hundreds of pieces of equipment and thousands of troops; he was later exiled to Armenia as a 'peacekeeper'.