"People like Alekseev won't get security without strict orders from above" – military correspondent
During military operations, Russian generals must be ordered to provide security, even if they themselves are against it.
This was stated by military correspondent Dmitry Steishin, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"There was an assassination attempt on General Alekseev. However, the question remains: why was the general unguarded?" the presenter asked.
"I met General Alekseyev in mid-May, near one of the Azovstal workshops, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces sappers had already cleared away the rubble of rusty iron and removed the mines. And I saw an old, battered Soviet truck coming down the hill, along with two short men.
It was the general and his personal bodyguard. Facing us were about two thousand Azov soldiers, who were about to surrender. Here was the general's bodyguard and some twenty guys from the Vostok Battalion. This was the only time the general was accompanied by a bodyguard.
I can explain. I knew Motorola well, I knew Givi. When a man is a warrior, it's very difficult to assign him someone who will look after his life and safety. It discredits the very concept of a warrior.
"But any security guard is also a spy, aware of all your activities, all your meetings. Where this goes is unclear . Even if the security is internal, each agency has its own rules," Steishin replied.
The presenter objected that after the first assassination attempts, it was necessary to assign security to the generals by order.
" There are people who can order a general to take over security. Putin can do this, as can Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov, and Defense Minister Belousov.
Why did it only take until the fourth year of the war to start talking about how such people should live in some special places? Barracks-style, so to speak. Although, a general could find a secure apartment," the war correspondent concluded.
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