Speculations about Seliverstov’s retirement first surfaced on Saturday. According to ISW it may be part of the ongoing purge of “disobedient” commanders, which is already being carried out by the leadership of the Russian army.
According to pro-Kremlin blogs, Major General Vladimir Seliverstov was dismissed from the post of commander of the 106th Airborne Division of the Airborne Forces.
It is reported that the reason for the dismissal was a conflict with the top management. pic.twitter.com/HKhWExD0lX
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General Vladimir Seliverstov (left) during a parade of military academy graduates.
This also includes the recall of Major General Ivan Popov, now the former commander of the 58th Army of the Russian Southern Military District, who allegedly tried to bypass Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and raise his complaints about the situation in the west of Ukraine’s Zaporozhye region directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to ISW, this is a new pattern of behavior that has developed within the Russian command in Ukraine, where commanders challenge the authority of senior commanders and try to use their responsibility for key sectors of the front to persuade the Kremlin to support them and their troops in demands for replacements or equipment .
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Russian general Ivan Popov
No one from official sources has yet commented on speculations about Seliverstov’s appeal. But the institute recalls that “initially there was a similar silence” around Popov.
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According to available information, Popov’s complaints centered on the lack of rotation of his soldiers, and in a leaked audio message he also complained about heavy losses and a lack of anti-missile weapons.
Given that Seliverstov was dismissed just four days after Popov, the Russian military leadership may have fired the other general for similar reasons.
Popov according to listu The Guardian stated that he was faced “with the choice of keeping quiet and being a coward, or telling it like it is”. “Because of that, my superiors probably sensed danger in me and immediately, within a day, put together an order and got rid of me,” said Popov.
Nothing is yet known about the further fate of Popov or Seliverstov.
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