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Vladimir Putin ousted the Russian general who was responsible for the chaotic logistics operation that hamstrung his army as its Ukraine invasion floundered — and named a notoriously brutal replacement. Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov, 67, was “released” Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram, so that he could transfer into a new but unspecified role. Bulgakov’s successor, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, is the infamous “Butcher of Mariupol” who ordered some of the Ukraine invasion’s worst atrocities — including an airstrike on a maternity hospital and an attack on a theater that was sheltering hundreds of children. Previously, Mizintsev was responsible...
