Instead of the detached Rosia General Alexander Lapin, the command of the Russian troops in the Lugansk direction was accepted by General Andrei Mordvichev. Country.ua writes that Olga Kurlaeva reported this by the special corner of VGTRK.
There are no official evidence of the appointment.
The Ukrainian edition recalls that for the first time, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov came to Mariupol for the first time about Mordvichev at the end of March. There he hugged the general under the cell, called him the “best commander” and held a military council with him. The Service of the Nonpasinity of Ukraine at the end of August announced Mordvicv’s suspicion for storming Mariupol from May and gave an order to capture Azovstal.
“If Mordvichev really replaces Lapina, a certain logic is traced in this: the news about the removal of Lapin appeared after criticism from Kadyrov. And now Lapin is being replaced, in all likelihood, a general comes with Kadyrov very good relations,” – writes the publication.
The American Institute for the Research of War in its daily review notes that the reports of the dismissal of Colonel General Lapin, who has not yet confirmed either the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation or the Kremlin, in any case indicate that the fraction of supporters of war in Russia is gaining a dominant position in Information space, which allows it to damage the image of the highest military command. The experts of the institute include the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who made General Lapin the main target for his criticism, as well as businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, whose “PMC Wagner” is fighting in Ukraine. The removal of Lapin was informed by the Grozny channel, and not just military bloggers, a significant part of which in this conflict was on the side of the general, and not the Chechen leader.