{"id":48535,"date":"2022-09-10T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48535"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T22:58:56","slug":"new-humiliation-for-russia-a-russian-lieutenant-general-is-captured-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/10\/new-humiliation-for-russia-a-russian-lieutenant-general-is-captured-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"New humiliation for Russia: a Russian lieutenant general is captured in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disbandment that the Russian Army is leading in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive on several fronts left surprising news this Friday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/09\/the-surreal-escape-of-a-russian-army-tank-in-the-midst-of-the-ukrainian-counteroffensive\/\">The surreal escape of a Russian Army tank in the midst of the Ukrainian counteroffensive<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/08\/the-symbol-that-the-ukrainians-paint-on-their-military-vehicles-against-the-z-of-the-russians\/\">The symbol that the Ukrainians paint on their military vehicles against the Z of the Russians<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As reported by the Ukrainian newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/russias-war\/top-russian-general-possibly-captured-in-uaf-kharkiv-offensive.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyiv Post<\/a>, during the liberation of the city of Balakliya, in the Kharkov region (northern Ukraine), <strong>images of Russian soldiers captured by the Ukrainians were published.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi, commander,Russian West Group. Sychevoi the most senior Russian officer captured since WW II. Changed into lieutenant uniform &amp; attempted to escape unrecognised. On trial! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2OCUnaN4Os\">https:\/\/t.co\/2OCUnaN4Os<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5QimYruzz4\">https:\/\/t.co\/5QimYruzz4<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5veWZqlCb\">https:\/\/t.co\/B5veWZqlCb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckSYLrrR0R\">pic.twitter.com\/ckSYLrrR0R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taras Kuzio \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 (@TarasKuzio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TarasKuzio\/status\/1568110440495960070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Among the prisoners you can see a high command<\/strong> with two parallel stars on his shoulder, the emblem that identifies the rank of lieutenant colonel in the ranks of the Russian Army. <strong>That command appears surrounded by Ukrainian soldiers, with their hands tied behind their backs<\/strong>, kneeling, with a bloody face, wearing a camouflage uniform and without a headgear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52348563870_2a3507cd22_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Various sources have identified that soldier as <strong>Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi, commander of the \"West\" Group of the Russian Federation forces<\/strong>. In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5470375\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Russian media<\/a> reported that Sychevoi was born on May 16, 1969 in the town of Troitskaya, in the Crimea district. <strong>In 2019, he was appointed commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District<\/strong>, and in the same year, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. <strong>In February 2022 he was one of the senior Russian officials targeted by the European Union sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52347223102_6fceb7ffe6_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian authorities have confirmed the capture of this lieutenant general. If confirmed, <strong>Sychevoi would be the highest-ranking Russian general taken prisoner since the World War II<\/strong>, a fact of enormous importance for Russia and that shows the extent to which this invasion is becoming a military disaster for the Kremlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disbandment that the Russian Army is leading in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive on several fronts left surprising news this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[17391,17390,10731,12043,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-48535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-andrei-sychevoi","tag-balakliya","tag-russia","tag-russian-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}