Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko was in overall charge of the Belbek air base, the most-developed and best-defended air force base in the Black Sea region.
    • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      I was just thinking I want a list of russia’s senior officers with the dead scratched out for visual representation. Their losses are insane…

      I was just thinking about the Iraqi Most Wanted playing cards given to US troops, and that if there was one for russia, I feel like half the deck would be dead officers by now.

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        Not a visual representation but there is a list on Wikipedia of Russian generals killed in this war.

        It is one metric fuck tonne of senior staff, no doubt lots of it coming from solid intel and HIMARS or similar.

          • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            9 months ago

            For context, Russia has been at war with Ukraine for almost two years. They have lost 9 Generals. The US was in Afghanistan for two decades. We lost 1.

            9 is a fuck ton of senior staff in 2 years.

            • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              9 months ago

              It’s hard to get a good picture imo. Russia is from what I understand top heavy so has more. Wiki says 1000 in 2008. Granted I don’t think all of them are active and there’s sectors like logistics that have generals, as well as different types of general although the wiki list only mentions the two highest types.

              I would love to see an article that goes in depth on what this means for their army.