They are actually claiming he is a "Major General". Which is an abbreviation for "Sergeant Major General" which is a lower rank than General. Of which there are 20 deployed in Ukraine. That is a 1 star rank.
Wikipedia has generated a page for each of these 'generals', based solely on the word of Ukraine officers alone, providing citation links that appear Questionable at best.
It sounds even sillier when you couple it with the rest of the propaganda about how all the soldiers were confused, tired, scared, thinking they were on an exercise etc.
If anything, I'd say it's actually the Russians that produce false flag propaganda, aiming to get the western countries complacent about how they "weak" they are, and to get them to send otherwise useless weapons and equipment to Ukraine. The actual goal - quietly bite off Donetsk and Lugansk, while creating a Somalia-style situation in the eastern part of the country, so that the Ukrainian armed forces will be too busy fighting local marauders, and unable to retaliate.
To that effect, both sides are now also filling up the region with mercenaries, mostly of Middle-Eastern origin - people whose job will be to turn it into a permanent PVP zone, in turn preventing the goal of NATO - putting its nukes all over the place. In short, Russia takes Ukraine, NATO takes a walk.
It largely doesn't matter. It's a propaganda boost for the other side being supported.
But in the actual war it is largely irrelevant. Yes it's a fair assumption to assume experience cannot be replaced. A loss is a loss. But when their entire military has just ranked in combat from the lowest cook to senior command. Promotion is inevitable in war. They will keep coming until objectives are met.
If you're questioning how and why. I don't want to speculate. It's war. Turkeys get shot. Always has been. Look at that pluffed up peacock. Whoops. Confirmed.
They are actually claiming he is a "Major General". Which is an abbreviation for "Sergeant Major General" which is a lower rank than General. Of which there are 20 deployed in Ukraine. That is a 1 star rank.
Wikipedia has generated a page for each of these 'generals', based solely on the word of Ukraine officers alone, providing citation links that appear Questionable at best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kolesnikov_(general)
It sounds even sillier when you couple it with the rest of the propaganda about how all the soldiers were confused, tired, scared, thinking they were on an exercise etc.
If anything, I'd say it's actually the Russians that produce false flag propaganda, aiming to get the western countries complacent about how they "weak" they are, and to get them to send otherwise useless weapons and equipment to Ukraine. The actual goal - quietly bite off Donetsk and Lugansk, while creating a Somalia-style situation in the eastern part of the country, so that the Ukrainian armed forces will be too busy fighting local marauders, and unable to retaliate.
To that effect, both sides are now also filling up the region with mercenaries, mostly of Middle-Eastern origin - people whose job will be to turn it into a permanent PVP zone, in turn preventing the goal of NATO - putting its nukes all over the place. In short, Russia takes Ukraine, NATO takes a walk.
It largely doesn't matter. It's a propaganda boost for the other side being supported.
But in the actual war it is largely irrelevant. Yes it's a fair assumption to assume experience cannot be replaced. A loss is a loss. But when their entire military has just ranked in combat from the lowest cook to senior command. Promotion is inevitable in war. They will keep coming until objectives are met.
If you're questioning how and why. I don't want to speculate. It's war. Turkeys get shot. Always has been. Look at that pluffed up peacock. Whoops. Confirmed.