He might have also been killed via a heart attack.
Russia likes to poison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison...polonium%2D210.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Skripal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison...Alexei_Navalny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko
Maybe Putin had done the same with all his generals, as Stalin did pre-war. ie anyone that was a potential threat like an officer in the army was generally killed. Or removed and replaced by a sycophant party member.
From what I understand that's one of the reasons why Russia lost so many battles at first. As Stalin had purged his army.
I remember reading something about the Poles actually beating them and the Germans had to bail them out and the same was supposed to with have happened with Norway.
TBH I thought that a lot of the pro-ukraine reporting about the battles was just Ukrainian propaganda at first but it seems that Russia's military strength has been overestimated for a long long time.
Imagine if Trump had have sold the Ukrainians the weapons in the first place when they wanted them instead of trying to blackmail them.
The only real issue is that Russia has a lot of former members of the Russian army to draw on.
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