The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable retirement in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine.
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Several generals have been removed from their commands by Russia's military chiefs as a result of the progress of the Ukraine war, UK Defence Intelligence has said.