The deputy head of the General Staff resigned - did not converge with the boss, the press claims

Deputy Head of the General Staff Alexander Postnikov wrote a dismissal report. According to the newspaper Kommersant , the general could not find a common language with the head of the General Staff, appointed after Nikolai Makarov, Valery Gerasimov.

According to a senior employee of the Ministry of Defense, General Postnikov wrote a report on the dismissal of "his own free will" at the end of last year, and he did not find objections from the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov. A source of Kommersant in the Presidential Administration claims that the retired decree has already been signed.

Alexander Postnikova a year ago on the sidelines was called one of the first candidates for departure, although he has not yet reached the age of age. The fact is that the general is considered a person from the close environment of the ex-head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov, who left his post in November 2012. Gerasimov did not immediately dismiss Postnikova, since there were no sharp contradictions between them.

“It was not a conflict, but a strong distrust,” the interlocutor of the newspaper explained to the Ministry of Defense. “It was uncomfortable for them to work, so the decision was brewing.”

General Postnikov in the General Staff was responsible for the issues of interaction with NATO, the problems of the pro, as well as the transfer to international control of chemical weapons in Syria.

Alexander Postnikov was born in 1957. He graduated from the Kazan Suvorov Military School, the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School named after MV Frunze, Military Academy. M.V. Frunze. In 2000, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He served as the chief of staff of the 22nd Army (Certain Ware), since August 2002-the commander of the 20th Guards Army in the Moscow Military District.

Since 2004-Chief of Staff-First Deputy Commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District. In December 2006, he was appointed chief of staff-the first deputy commander of the Troops of the Siberian Military District.

The military rank of "Colonel General" was awarded Postnikov by Decree of the President of 12.06.2006 and by order of the Minister of Defense of 12.06.2006. Also, by decree of the President and by order of the head of the Ministry of Defense in 2007, he was appointed commander of the troops of the Siberian Military District.

On January 13, 2010, it became known that Postnikov was appointed commander in chief of the ground forces. Army General Vladimir Boldyrev, the former commander in chief of the Ground Forces, was fired from the armed forces upon reaching the maximum age, recalls RIA Novosti .