'The EGF under Muradov has suffered exceptionally heavy casualties in recent months as its poorly conceived assaults repeatedly failed to capture the Donetsk Oblast town of Vuhledar.'
Muradov was also involved in planning a similarly doomed attack on the village of Pavlivka, in which hundreds of Putin's troops were reportedly gunned down.īritain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said his departure was the most senior military dismissal of 2023 so far – but warned more are likely as Moscow fails to achieve its objectives in eastern Ukraine. Shocking aerial footage taken by Ukrainian drones showed corpses and the twisted wreckage of vehicles littering fields around the town. Survivors claim one marine brigade of 5,000 men was almost wiped out, and at least 130 armoured vehicles, including 36 tanks, were destroyed. His tactic, a frontal assault in broad daylight, ended in utter disaster. Muradov, a close ally of Russia's military chief Valery Gerasimov, earlier this year launched an attack on the mining town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donetsk region.
General Rustam Muradov had led Russia's Eastern Group of Forces (EGF) for almost a year, having taken up the role after his predecessor's attempt to assault Kyiv in the first weeks of the war. A Russian commander who presided over attacks in Ukraine that led thousands of men to slaughter has been dismissed from his post, Western officials have claimed.
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