At the ceremony of awarding the Golden Star of the Hero of the Russian Federation, December 28, 2017
telegraph.co.uk: Vladimir Putin has fired one of the top generals leading Russia's forces in Ukraine, after an attack on the eastern town of Vuhledar ended with dozens of tanks being destroyed.
General Rustam Muradov was sucked in the aftermath of the failure, the Moscow Times reported, citing officials in the Russian defence ministry.
Michael Kofman, a military analyst, told the newspaper: “Muradov had the Russian military repeatedly attacking in small mechanized formations through minefields, across open terrain. And they accomplished nothing in Vuhledar.”
The battle for Vuhledar, some 100 miles south west of Bakhmut, is said to have been one of the most embarrassing defeats suffered by Moscow in the entire war, with Russian forces reportedly losing 130 armoured vehicles.
Reports last week suggested the Kremlin was considering changing its senior commanders.
From November 11, 2020 to September 9, 2021, Muralov was the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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