Vladimir Putin has brought a mothballed general out of retirement, and he is a real heavyweight.
General Pavel, 67, who weighs nearly 300 pounds, has been pulled away from his suburban Moscow dinner table and sent to the front lines in Ukraine after several military leaders have been killed or purged in the war. The corpulent commander will be in charge of Russia’s special forces.
“Putin is now scraping the barrel,” a senior intelligence source told the Daily Star. “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.”
Due to significant losses among competent commanders, Russia has been forced to send in retired Major General Pavel to oversee a special forces unit operating in Eastern Ukraine.
Pavel is a 67-year-old veteran of Russia’s war in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/7TvLx7Moxy
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 26, 2022
Pavel…
