 A Russian general has found a new humiliating way to punish officers who displease him. The Russians are forming assault units of officers in southern Ukraine. The newly appointed Russian general Mikhail Teplinsky issued the order according to the spokesperson for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Andrey Kovalev. The commander of the Russian occupiers of Niprop, General Teplinsky issued an order to form assault units from among the officers, he says. According to the spokesperson, the main criteria for officers to be recruited to such assault units are their inability to command subordinates, personal indiscipline, and poor motivation. These are some kind of shock battalions. Modelled after the White Guard units of the 1920s adds the representative of the General Staff. Kovalev also adds that General Mikhail Teplinsky, who is currently the commander of the Russian occupation Niprop Group of Troops, is not respected among the Russian Armed Forces. In particular, his subordinates say that he does not care about the lives of his personnel. This is a rather mundane and prosaic situation for Russian commanders, he says. Earlier a new rotation of Russian generals in the Kursan sector was reported in a report by the Institute for the Study of War. According to the authors, Russia has probably replaced Colonel General Oleg Makarevich, who led the Niprop Group with Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, commander of the Airborne Forces. This information was later confirmed by Russian media.