'Crazy idiot': Russian commander suspended for pushing soldiers to die in battle of Vuhledar, WATCH

Kremlin: Russian independent news media referred to a recently deposed Russian commander as a “crazy idiot” for the botched assault on the Ukrainian town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donetsk area.

Colonel-General Rustam Muradov, 50, who led the recent offensive in eastern Ukraine, has been suspended, according to The Moscow Times, an independent English- and Russian-language online newspaper with offices in Amsterdam that is currently outlawed in Russia.

One of the sources told the online daily, “Muradov was suspended because he was a crazy idiot who could command soldiers to die. Many complained about him.”

The disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh is the focal point of a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Muradov, a former leader of Russian forces in Syria, later worked as a peacekeeper there.

According to reports, he has been the leader in Ukraine since October 5, 2022, leading Russia’s Eastern Military District. Muradov attacked Vuhledar in February when he sent his soldiers into minefields, right under the artillery fire of the Ukrainians.

Two elite marine brigades—one of which is presumably the much-discussed 155th Naval Infantry Brigade—and 103 pieces of equipment were reportedly lost by the army in just three days.

.@nytimes called the defense of Vuhledar the largest tank battle of the war in terms of russian losses. Which is, in our opinion, quite unfair to the russian infantry.