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Nicholas Cecil

Russian general axed for telling army chiefs of frontline deaths rather than ‘keep quiet as a coward’

A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling Vladimir Putin’s military leadership about the dire situation at the front in Ukraine.

Major General Ivan Popov, who commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army, accused Moscow’s defence top brass of stabbing Russian soldiers in the back by a string of failures in the invasion of Ukraine.

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