Moscow (dpa-Afx)-The Colonry of General Alexander Lapin, who is known primarily through his role in the Ukraine War, has been released from military service. This reported the RBK news agency, citing a source familiar with the case. The medium of “Tatar-Inform” wrote without stating a source that Lapin assistant to the Republic Chair of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnichanow, should be. It should therefore be responsible for questions about the Ukraine war, defense and work with veterans, it said.
Lapin, who comes from Kazan in the partial Republic of Tatarstan, commanded the Army Group Center of Russian troops in Ukraine until October 2022. After a few defeats and sometimes violent criticism by Chechen leader Ramsan Kadyrov, he was replaced on the post, but a little later appointed the head of the army for the general staff. As head of the Leningrad military district, he recently commanded part of the army again. Even before the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, he commanded the Russian troops in Syria for a while