Same source different platform; https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/111489950957242055
Preliminary information came out that Russian Major General Volodymyr Zavadskyi, (former) Commander of the Taman Division and deputy of the 14th Army Corps has been killed, reportedly blown up by a mine today.
I had no idea they were on Mastodon!
That suggests he had more balls than most of Russian leadership and was actually at least somewhat near the front.
They’ve actually lost a lot of their senior officer corps. The reason is that in the Russian military the enlisted ranks and junior officers have very little autonomy, so senior officers are obliged to be in much closer contact with the front than we would expect in NATO, for example.
Bonus points if it was a #Russian mine.
It was just an experiment on how to get future cosmonauts into space without the added costs of using expensive rockets.
Preliminary reports suggest 16% of him made it there. Great success!
He definitely attained terminal velocity.
His terminal alright.
