Ruskie Gen: Troop Cell Phones Led to Mass Casualties

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Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov, who serves directly to Putin, caused controversy when he attempted to blame the deceased soldiers themselves for the devastating missile strike.

“A commission is working to investigate what happened,” Sevryukov said on Monday. “But even today it is clear that the main reason was personnel switching on and using – despite the ban – mobile phones within the enemy reach zone.”

“This allowed the enemy to detect the personnel’s coordinates for the missile strike,” the lieutenant general added.

In response to Sevryukov’s remarks, the mothers and wives of the fallen Russian soldiers blamed the “criminal commanders” who turned their sons and husbands “into minced meat” by placing hundreds of troops together and "inviting a Ukrainian strike.”

Even pro-Putin figures like Semyon Pegov, who was awarded the Russian Order of Courage by Putin in December, criticized the missile strike in Donetsk over the weekend.

“The story about ‘mobiles’ is not too convincing,” he said, suggesting Ukrainian intelligence simply found the hundreds of troops in the makeshift barracks building and ordered a strike.

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