Shoigu and Gerasimov. General Ivan Popov was replaced by Lt. General Lyamin, who was his previous deputy in the 58th. A little background: Popov was a relatively young, fast-rising general who only became the commander of the 58th army relatively recently. Also, it should be noted that Gerasimov himself once commanded the 58th. With knowing anyone of the backstop of the command structure of the 58th or detailed recent combat history I stil feel confident making the following statement.
The fact that half drunk civilians in Canada that's me are discussing thus situation on the comment section of substack no disrespectful to simplicius I highly respect your analysis and im looking forward to your next post is definitely not a good situation for the Russian military. Seriously the Russian MOD and General staff needs to kept this kind of shit in house and off social media ffs. The MSM in the west are making much of this situation and the line is that the Russian military is riven with poltical factions and dissent, and that another coup is likely.
Much like the Prig affair, this one is opaque and confusing. My first though was that this seems to be a competent General so why has he been removed? Is this more Maskirovka? To encourage more UAF attacks against the 58th Army and so cause losses? Unlikely I think. My second thought was that Generals do get moved around in war so not unusual but why the statement?
Not intended to be public though but certainly leaked for a reason. Finally, looking at this from the other point of view, if this was UAF Generals we were dealing with then most here would claim serious issues within the UAF leadership.
So there may be something deeper to all this and it would be a mistake to discount it in that case. It might be that this is not about personalities but policies.
