Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who commanded the group of Russian troops “Center” in the war in Ukraine, was removed from his post, a source in the Ministry of Defense told Moscow Times.
On the eve of Lapin’s resignation, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov demanded, he was supported by the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. Kadyrov criticized Colonel General for the “surrender” of the estuary and a breakthrough of defense of a number of settlements in the so-called “DPR”.