Why did Putin sack 8 of his generals?

Quora Digest, Brent Cooper, Trial and appellate counsel for Cooper & Scully (1993–present)Mar 10

Because they are making him foolish and he doesn’t like to look like a fool.

Oleksiy Danilov, head of Ukraine’s security council, announced that eight Russian commanders have been fired since the start of the conflict amid heavy losses on the battlefield. Two may have been fired because they were among those killed but we do not know if they were in the number.

In addition, Putin is said to be enraged with leaders of the FSB security service for handing him intelligence suggesting that Ukraine was weak, contained many neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if attacked as they had in the Crimea. In addition, some in the FSB are said to have leaked information to the Ukrainians.

Philip Ingram, a former British intelligence officer, said that Putin is obviously ‘very angry’ and is blaming his intelligence agencies and generals.

“He blames them for seeding him the advice that led to the poor decision-making in Ukraine,’ he said.

That poor decision making has led to Russia suffering much higher casualties than it expected in its attack, which has now been going on for two weeks.

The delay is allowing Ukraine to be rearmed by the West. Russia is also now feeling the impact of the sanctions.

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