It would also mean Putin and his defence minister Sergei Shoigu and his ally General Valery Gerasimov - Russia s most senior soldier - sense they face a mass mutiny.
Paratrooper commander Major-General Vladimir Seliverstov, 49, (right) is the latest member of Russia s top brass to be purged by Vladimir Putin s Defence minister Sergei Shoigu (inset).
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The Kremlin has been systematically weeding out military officials it believes are either involved in mutinous activity or disrupting their attempts at misinforming the Russian public regarding the state of their special military operation in Ukraine.