A Russian general is out a pound of flesh – well actually probably more like 60 or 70 pounds – after a Ukrainian strike on a column in the Kursk region left him minus one arm and leg, Reuters reports.
General Esedulla Abachev, deputy commander of the Kremlin’s Northern group of forces, was traveling in a convoy toward the front in the western Russian region Kursk, where the Ukrainians have captured and held onto a good amount of Russian soil -though a pittance relative to the square mileage of Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation – when he was very badly WIA at some point in the last few days. Abachev is a native of Russia’s Dagestan region, whose leader Sergei Melikov posted on Telegram that the general was in a serious but stable condition in “one of the best military medical centres in the country.” Key word there being “in the country” which means they fed him 100 proof vodka – and poured plenty of it on the bonesaw to disinfect it – instead of the lower-quality grog the enlisted guys get before they undergo their amputations.