News about Ukraine, Russia

NEW: The Kremlin is pursuing a concerted effort to remove senior Russian defense officials and has likely expanded this effort to senior officers commanding Russian combat operations in Ukraine. 🧵(1/4) pic.twitter.com/WX5lWU9d8R

NEW: Ukrainian sources indicated that Russia is concentrating limited, understaffed, & incohesive forces in the Sumy direction, but even such a grouping will be able to achieve the likely desired effect of drawing & fixing Ukrainian forces in the international border area. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/GuXkrG6sBr

The purge of generals continues Commander of the 20th Army Sukhrab Akhmedov has been removed from his post. pic.twitter.com/nOonyKrjfu

❗️ Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, has been detained, Russian media reported pic.twitter.com/9LStceD7JE