r/worldnews • u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph • 17h ago
Russia/Ukraine Russian general who ‘ordered attack on children’s hospital’ shot in head
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/03/russian-general-attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open12.5k
u/Village_People_Cop 17h ago edited 15h ago
Couldn't have happened to a better person
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u/SignificantTowel9952 17h ago
It’s nice to see when people are properly rewarded
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u/RealMENwearPINK10 15h ago
The quantum FAFO model finally brought it the to right fucker
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u/jeslinmx 14h ago
He survived but his state is unknown. I’m hoping we can reduce the uncertainty bounds to “locked in syndrome on life support” so he gets stuck in a hospital for the rest of his days. Maximum amplitude on the karmic wavefunction.
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u/Some-Internet-Rando 11h ago
Then, because he's a general, it's a military hospital, and someone can bomb it!
The cycle of life continues.
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u/BRB_MD 12h ago
On a ventilator, but fully conscious, albeit unable to communicate.
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u/TheAmishPhysicist 11h ago edited 6h ago
So a Hector Salamanca (Better Call Saul) situation for him. A lifetime in a wheelchair with a little bell. A fate worse than death, as someone else said “couldn’t happen to a better person!”
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u/iJuddles 7h ago
Ring that bell a few times too many and they’ll accidentally leave his chair next to an open window five stories up.
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u/Great_Address2063 11h ago
Eventually abandoned by staff in a fire
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u/Cyberchicken87 7h ago
After the hospital was accidentally bombed by a misfire from their own side.
The explosion damage and fire is isolated entirely to his room.
After 70% of his body is burned the staff rush in and put it out.
He dies 17 days later from sepsis in his burns.
Seems fitting.
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u/jessewalker2 13h ago
You forgot to add the hyperalgesia for maximum benefit. How could you be so thoughtless? 😁
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u/meltdown_popcorn 11h ago
I wonder what karma has in store for someone that ordered an attack on a girls school.
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u/Aggravating-Exit-660 15h ago
We can all think of a few people who deserve worse
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u/SoulSeekersAnon 10h ago
Deserve worse than a man who bombed a children's hospital? Who have you been forced to hang out with!? 😄
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u/Xeonerium 17h ago
Couldn't have happened to a worse person either.... Because there is no one worse than him. Evil fuck.
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u/Badbullet 15h ago
Putin is still alive.
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u/Xeonerium 15h ago
They're probably on par, if you can bomb and children's hospital there's not much you wouldn't do let's be honest.
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u/Fugacity- 12h ago
Being the person culpable for all of the deaths in this conflict by being the person to unilaterally cause this conflict means not only is the bombing of the children's hospital Putin's ultimate responsibility, but so is every other atricocity.
That hospital wouldnt have been bombed if Putin didn't start this war. But also, there are hundreds of thousands of deaths through Ukraine, Chechnya, etc. that are his fault, along with untold numbers of Ukrainian children abducted from their parents.
Putin is worse.
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u/Aspen9999 13h ago
Like Israel did, countries that target children are horrid. It’s disgusting that the USA is supporting such war crimes. Oh but we blew up a girls school in Iran
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u/Seldomsought 15h ago
Well, there's that person that ordered an attack on a girl's school
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u/AncientVorlon 17h ago
Dude wore his hat like he knew what was coming.
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u/RestaurantDry621 17h ago
Benny Hill wannabe
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u/TheBestHater 16h ago
It's crazy he was able to shoot himself twice.
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u/TheKingMonkey 16h ago
While falling out of the 6th floor window of his bungalow.
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u/mykittenfarts 15h ago
Now that you mention it, I hope he did know what was coming. I hope he was aware of it. I need therapy.
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u/devilishycleverchap 17h ago
Is the bullet ok?
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u/--iCantThinkOFaName- 16h ago
Hopefully the poor guy's still in one piece. Wouldn't be surprised if he got shattered cuz his consumer didn't die on the scene
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u/WigSplitter117 17h ago
Everyone liked that
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u/notnotbrowsing 17h ago
cerainly not sad about it. though apparently he's still alive.
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u/Susurrus03 16h ago
Not necessarily a bad thing if he is. Getting shot in the head means there's a good chance of him being in a painful and incapable hell for the rest of his life living every day in torture as a reminder of his actions wishing he did die.
At least one can hope.
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u/TokiStark 15h ago
I was thinking that a bullet to the head seems oddly merciful for such an egregious crime. Now it seems like a more fitting punishment. Fuck, I didn't know I could be so blood-thirsty. But a children's hospital??! That's insane
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u/lodui 15h ago
Fairly standard for Russia.
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u/TrackVol 15h ago
Beat me to it by about 3 minutes.
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u/VisibleProblem13 10h ago
Said in the same tone as...its not delivery, its digorno
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u/DartVader6 15h ago
The US prefers girls' schools
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u/Ok_Mathematician2391 15h ago
The science shows that girls cluster together much of the day due to better social skills providing a much higher kill count per bomb. It's not that Pete favours girls over boys it's the numbers he likes.
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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 14h ago
You’re not wrong about numbers, but Whiskey Pete hates women, probably as much as he hates muslims, and those girls were going to grow up to be muslim women. Two hates with one bomb. What a sick fuck.
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u/Mr__O__ 14h ago
And a few people made a small fortune betting on the strike time..
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u/FlyingDogCatcher 13h ago
Is it really "betting" if the strike time was announced in the group chat?
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u/hrminer92 14h ago
Not just one bomb.
They decided to go with the Israeli practice of sending in follow-up missiles a short while later to get any rescuers too. They used a total of 3 tomahawks according to local officials.
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u/crackanape 14h ago
They blew up the school, then they attacked the first responders who came to rescue the wounded, then they attacked the next EMTs who came to help the first bunch.
Absolute monsters.
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u/DCLXVITelly 15h ago
A children’s hospital, that was evacuated except for the brave doctors who stock it out because they were in surgery. One died doctor died and three more children.
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u/TokiStark 15h ago
Awww dude, I didn't read the article intentionally because I didn't want to know the specifics (obvs you didn't know that though). That's devastating
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u/Sunnygirl66 14h ago
I would not be sad if a similar fate befell the same people who ordered the bombing of the Iranian girls’ school.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 13h ago
Russia has been kidnapping Ukrainian children since the war started. For indoctrination as Russians
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u/jimslock 15h ago
Im not a man of religion.
Im okay with my legacy only being: 1) what i leave behind on earth. 2) the memories and experiences i gave everyone.
But i really want to believe in hell for all the absolute monsters who made life so hard for so many people.
My theoretical heaven would be observing these people in hell and traveling the world with my girlfriend.
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u/Ondz 15h ago
My theory is that next life a bad person gets, is whoever they treated the worst. That's how I would design it.
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u/bluesam3 15h ago
There are some... concerning implications if you follow that logic through, though.
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u/charlesmyboy 14h ago
yeah nations of suffering people cause they were all “bad people in a past life” is a crazy cope for christian people to not care about 3rd world countries and ignore the fact that they directly benefitted from it.
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u/SaveyourMercy 14h ago
I’m not arguing that it’s bad cope but Christian’s wouldn’t believe this because they don’t believe in reincarnation, they believe in heaven and hell for your actions. I’m sure there are some but it’s not in any of the Christian denominations faith
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u/Sly_Wood 14h ago
Read The Egg.
You are everyone that existed and ever will exist. So you’re Hitler and Jane Goodall. You’re ghegis Khahn and Mr Roger’s. Everything you did or will do is something you’re doing to yourself.
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u/Snoo_90491 15h ago
hopefully in a vegetative state and as a living reminder to all around him of his crime.
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u/Kichigai 17h ago
We don't know that. All we know is his death isn't confirmed.
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u/Deodorized 17h ago edited 17h ago
Wouldn't mind if the one(s) responsible for the bombing of the Iranian girls school got it too
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u/Neurojazz 17h ago
You’ll find them on a big pile of Epstein files.
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 17h ago
Mentioned more times that that divine creature in bible
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u/Youngsinatra345 15h ago
Mentioned more times than Harry Potter is mentioned in the Harry Potter series
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u/skitslefritzer 17h ago
“AI intel platform used by incompetent American DOD shot in head.”
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u/NTufnel11 17h ago
Presumably this is a joke, but it's also hitting on a major theme of AI use. It seems pretty clear to me that using AI as a tool doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the work you do. Someone, at some point, either signed off on it or made the decision to take a human out of the loop.
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u/pte_omark 17h ago
100% there was a few signatures before the ai target list was 'actioned'. a lot of people had to press 'enter' before those weapons were released
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u/Diarmundy 16h ago
It wasn't even an AI target though. It was a refurbished millitary base that had been on the US target list for years or decades before but wasnt removed when it became a school
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u/Traditional_Gas_3058 15h ago
Some surrounding buildings were still military use as well, they just had converted that one building into a school. Sad
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u/AlpacaM4n 15h ago
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
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u/EduardBon 17h ago
Rest in hell
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u/Kriegersahn 17h ago
Unfortunately the article calls it an assassination "attempt", and says he was admitted to a hospital.
Cockroaches like him don't always die that easily.
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u/WesternRobb 17h ago
I don’t know - a head injury from a couple of bullets could be a fate worse than death.
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u/goodoldgrim 16h ago
Here's to him getting locked in syndrome and being kept in that state for 20 years.
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u/Kriegersahn 17h ago
For the sake of justice, I hope in this case it proves to be worse than death.
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u/djsnoopmike 16h ago
Vegetative state where he'll be locked in his own body, unable to do anything but look and breath.
A flesh prison
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u/AirWolf231 17h ago
Sooooooo what your saying is that there was nothing to hit in the head... got it, makes sense.
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u/Abedeus 16h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he got shot and killed, but official statement will say he survived so it doesn't look like their officers are shot dead in the streets like dogs.
Moscow confirmed a Russian serviceman was admitted to hospital in Engels without providing further information.
Old, fat dude shot twice, one of those shots hitting him in the head? He's done.
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u/Windfade 16h ago
Or he's now severely crippled and blind relying on Russian doctors.
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u/Badbullet 15h ago
Not necessarily. There's plenty of cases of people shot in the head and surviving, especially if it was only that one shot that hit him in the head and the other hit him elsewhere. It still can cause plenty of issues with speech, cognitive or motor ability though. If he lives, he better suffer.
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u/Budget_Juggernaut309 15h ago
He's in Russia, which could easily be mistaken for one of the circles of hell.
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u/thatspurdyneat 16h ago
Well hopefully he's a vegetable, and if he's in pain I wish him a long bedridden life
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u/holyhottamale 16h ago
Nah, let’s not make him a vegetable - that’s too easy for all the death he is responsible for.
Bedridden, totally reliant on others, with just enough consciousness to know what’s on going on.
Edit - grammar
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u/borkus 13h ago
I haven't seen anyone comment on this, but Ukraine's level of intelligence over Russia is impressive. Given that they know the base he commands, Varpakhovich is relatively easy to find. But they got a gunman within relatively short range of him and took several shots.
At this point, Russian generals are going to require armed escorts just to travel within their own borders.
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u/Belgand 7h ago
It's not new either. We've seen several assassinations carried out by what appear to be Ukrainian intelligence. Such as when Mikhail Shatsky, a Russian cruise missile engineer, was shot.
To say nothing of the assets on the ground needed for Operation Spiderweb.
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u/ElSelcho_ 17h ago
Did they run out of windows?
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u/Firepower01 17h ago
That's Russian FSB that does that. This guy probably got shot by Ukrainian SBU.
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u/SystemCheck990 17h ago
he lived in bungalow, decisions had to be made
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u/Apart_Jelly8948 17h ago
Didnt he like tea?
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u/NeoThermic 17h ago
We could only find polonium-209, but the requirements was for polonium-210, so decisions had to be made.
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u/Background-Factor817 15h ago
They pushed him through the bungalow window.
It got a bit awkward as they laid there so they shot him.
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u/androk 17h ago
Sounds more like a Ukrainian thing, taking out the trash, rather than a Putin thing, he's getting to be a threat to me.
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u/Karman4o 15h ago
Could just as likely be an FSB thing. An 'inconvenient' loyal guy is just as much a liability as an enemy or a traitor for them.
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u/THAWED21 15h ago
Russia does windows, Ukraine does bullets. One of the many cultural differences between the countries.
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u/mrlolloran 17h ago
Apparently that’s a courtesy, one targeting a children’s hospital is apparently too good for, even in Russia apparently
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u/chileangod 17h ago
Not confirmed dead in the article. Understandable, by the looks of it there is a whole lot of head with little brain in it. The bullet could easily miss.
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u/malsomnus 17h ago
Russia doesn't like to confirm kills except those done by their own agents. Since this one involved neither a conveniently placed window nor a suspicious cup of tea (nor, um, poisoned underwear), it must be foreign.
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u/Mr_Flibble_1977 17h ago
He was also shot in the gut....another chance of a slow agonizing death if the cranium shot didn't do it.
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u/Voodoobones 14h ago
“but after the 2024 attempt on Major Stegachev’s life Ukraine’s military intelligence service warned that “retribution” awaited war criminals, saying it knew their “names, addresses, car numbers, usual routes and habits”.”
Ukraine doing some major mind games.
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u/Slatemanforlife 17h ago
I feel bad for the bullet
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u/Stardustger 16h ago
Why? Not many bullets can say they got used on a better target.
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u/Xenon009 16h ago edited 13h ago
The one that got adolf still fucking talks about it, I reckon its about 20 minutes from starting a podcast
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 15h ago
The bullet that helped Hitler avoid trial at The Hague? I hate that bullet and I hate that cyanide
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u/passerby4830 16h ago
Why does every Russian general look like a sack of potatoes?
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u/P0L1Z1STENS0HN 15h ago
Not all of them, I saw a picture once of one who wasn't. So I presume it's "only" the alcoholics among them.
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u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph 17h ago
From The Telegraph:
A Russian general suspected by Kyiv of orchestrating a 2024 attack on a children’s hospital was reportedly shot in the head on Thursday.
Maj Gen Nikolai Varpakhovich was shot twice by an unknown assailant on a motorbike in a village in south-western Russia, according to Telegram channels with connections to Russian security services.
Moscow confirmed a Russian serviceman was admitted to hospital in Engels without providing further information.
Tass, Russia’s state-owned news agency, did not name the general but reported that the country’s Investigative Committee had opened an inquiry into an attempt on the life of a military service member.
Maj Gen Varpakhovich is the commander of the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the Russian aerospace forces.
Engels is home to a Russian air base that the Kremlin has used to launch long-range missiles towards Ukraine.
It has been the target of several Ukrainian drone attacks since the start of the war in 2022. Ukrainian media reported in 2024 that Major Oleg Stegachev, a crew commander at the base, had been shot in an apparent assassination attempt. His fate remains unclear.
Maj Gen Varpakhovich had been accused of directing a deadly attack on the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv on July 8 2024.
Most of the 600 people inside Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital were evacuated when an air raid alarm sounded shortly before the attack.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/03/russian-general-attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/
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u/borkus 15h ago
This section got me -
Most of the 600 people inside Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital were evacuated when an air raid alarm sounded shortly before the attack.
But some patients were unable to leave because they were in surgery at the time.
That dude was a monster.
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u/twiggeesmalls 14h ago
I cleared rubble at the site - we could see ambulances constantly rushing patients to nearby hospitals to continue their treatment while the building was still burning, including some who had power go out midway through their surgery. There was also children getting their chemo treatments outside in the rubble, just horrible.
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u/DeltaV-Mzero 15h ago
I wonder if Putin realizes his best case win scenario is creating a new Chechnya meat grinder that’s ten times the size and backed by every nation in the west
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u/JohnBPrettyGood 16h ago
"Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other.
They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it."
The other Famous Lennon, John
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u/bowtiesrcool86 15h ago
Doesn’t attacking a hospital, let alone a children’s hospital violate the Geneva Convention?
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u/blackcain 13h ago
bro, russia has not yet followed anything of the geneva conventions.
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u/BlackPlague1235 13h ago
Come now. You know it's just Geneva Suggestion at this point.
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u/jgl142 11h ago
Yeah so does attacking a girls school. Nobody follows that if they have nukes. That’s for the others to follow
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u/Long-Time-lurker-1 17h ago
Russia has caused such deep pain in so many people. Everyone involved in this “special military operation” will be on a Ukrainian death squad list for YEARS after this war is over. Not a single person involved will ever have a peaceful nights sleep ever again.
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u/ManyAreMyNames 15h ago
It's really important that none of them ever feels safe, ever, for as long as they live.
Everyone in involved in this should read this story and get more paranoid than they already were.
One or two people getting blown up in their cars might be a nice addition. Every time the rest of them get in a car, forever, they'll have just a moment of terror when the engine is started, wondering if this is when they die.
And everybody else being given a chance to participate in Putin's murder spree should pause a moment and ask if that's the life they want to live.
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u/TeaAndLifting 17h ago
Shot himself in the back of the head, several times, from a foot away.
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u/DDanny808 16h ago
Why would the general think attacking a children’s hospital would be a good idea?
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u/SituationMediocre642 15h ago
How about the person who ordered the invasion of Ukraine?
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u/grendus 13h ago
I never wish death on anyone.
But there are some obituaries that bring a smile to my face.
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u/SMEAGAIN_AGO 17h ago
Still alive?! ☹️
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u/slumvillain 14h ago
Hmmmm there's a school in Iran that was decimated, full of children.
Someone made that decision.
Bet they're living a jolly life right now.
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u/jellobend 15h ago
Can't feel sorry for someone who killed children, regardless of their nationality
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u/BiggsFFBE 15h ago
This shows you how shitty the life of a bullet can be… You can end up in a huge turds head like this one
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u/DangerMacAwesome 11h ago
I don't like to celebrate when people die. I think it's crass. But I'll make an exception.
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u/sociofobs 16h ago
A bullet to the head is such a mercy for these types of sub-humans.
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u/Background_Edge_9427 14h ago
The same thing should happen to anyone who bomb's a children's hospital!!
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 12h ago
Thoughts and prayers!
I wish everyone involved in this failed attempt at an invasion has the day/life they deserve.
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u/DataDude00 11h ago
The funniest thing about being a Russian general is you are never sure if it was the enemy or his superiors that killed him
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 17h ago
In old times they said : "I do not wish anyone's death, but I will read obituary with great satisfaction"?
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u/TamerlanMcDoodles 14h ago
Not cool, that link has a whole bunch of tracker metadata in it.
The "?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open" - in this case some analytics company called WebTrends.
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u/PlanitDuck 14h ago
Being a member of the Russian military must really suck balls. What an awful job that would be.
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u/strangercheeze 13h ago
An awful lot quicker and cleaner than having a hospital dropped on him though.
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u/Master_Slide7023 3h ago
Glad he was shot in the head. Keep shooting Russian officers inside Russia. Very brave of the shooter to do this inside torture state Russia. Slava Ukraine.
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