Russia has been forced to call upon a retired general, who weighs 127 kg, to be sent to the Ukraine war as its commanders are being killed on the battlefield. Major General Pavel, 67, was sent to Ukraine after a unit’s top officer was severely injured.
Pavel, who is a veteran of Russia’s calamitous war in Afghanistan, is now in-charge of troops in eastern Ukraine as Russia is running low on senior military officers.
“Putin is now scraping the barrel. Most of his best and battle-hardened senior commanders have been killed or injured fighting in Ukraine so he is resorting to sending second-rate officers to the front who don’t last very long. He is now dragging generals out of retirement and one of those is General Pavel,” a source told Daily Star.
