Ivan Stagleishov

Ivan Stagleishov
Biographical Information
Ranks/Titles	General
Birth	September 20, 1962
Death	January, 2016
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	5'11
Hair Color	Grey
Eye Color	Brown

"We are Russians, General La Pointe. Not NATO."

― Stagleishov's warning to Pierre La Pointe

General Ivan Stagleishov was a Russian Air Force pilot and commander of all Russian forces during the 2015 East Africa insurgence.

Biography

Stagleishov was the leader of the Russian forces working in tandem with NATO in East Africa. He is first met in the introductory cutscene of mission #2, "Inferno" where he is caught by William Bishop and José Gutierrez of the Warwolf Squadron in a heated discussion with Task Force 108 commander Pierre La Pointe on NATO's fighter escort policy.

Betrayal

"A shame you are still alive. A grave mistake on my part."

― General Ivan, "Blue on Blue"

Shortly after the events at Mogadiyu, the Warwolf Squadron returns to the Allied base. As the four pilots prepare to land, Guts notices a large group of fighters taxiing in the runway. Bishop asks the control tower about the situation, only to be nearly rammed by the aircraft, callsign "Big Bear". On the radio, Stagleishov tells Warwolf that his squadron was forced to scramble quickly to respond to an emergency situation, and that he was "sorry for the mix-up". Several seconds later, AWACS Kingmaster alerts the team of a siege in the northern city of Carruth, prompting them to head there.

On their way to Carruth, the team is ambushed by several rebel Fishbeds, as the Big Bear Squadron was reportedly engaging the enemy in the east. The Big Bear team returned soon thereafter, opening fire on the NATO aircraft, leading Warwolf 2 to issue a "blue on blue" (friendly fire) warning. With no response from Ivan, who was nowhere to be seen, William ordered all aircraft to treat the Russians as hostiles. In the middle of the engagement, Ivan ended his radio silence, and spoke with Colonel Bishop, telling him that his betrayal was his own doing, without any external intervention. Shortly thereafter, Andrei Markov, the Russian ace that Bishop had seen in his dreams days ago, joined the fray. Bishop managed to get Akula off Gutierrez's back, only to be chased by the Russian himself. Ready to kill a crippled Bishop, Andrei was called off by Stagleishov on the grounds of low fuel, with a disappointed Markov telling Bishop that "[he] was not good enough" in Russian as he left with the general.

New Russian Federation coup d'etat and death

General Stagleishov remained out of the picture for days, during which he led rebel Russian forces in their coup to instaurate a "New Russian Federation". On January 15, 2016, the loyalist Russian forces and the 108th Task Force launched an assault to retake the capital of Moscow from the NRF forces, which concluded in the detonation of one of the three last Trinity warheads, and the subsequent liberation of the city.

When the city's defenses fell, Stagleishov relayed a message to the loyalist Aleksej unit, requesting them to relay a transmission to the 17th Airborne Division. In his message, he requested to be granted political immunity in exchange for the last remaining Trinity warhead. Afterwards, he would participate in a videoconference with a Blatnoi member, explaining to him how "[they] must agree to [the loyalists'] terms". However, the transmission would be interrupted by Andrei Markov and two NRF soldiers, who barged into the room and shot the General. An injured Ivan explained Markov how the coup had failed, the latter replying that the entire plot was about revenge. At the end, Andrei executed the dying Stagleishov.

Gallery

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  Early screenshot. Note that his first name is written on his uniform, unlike in the actual game.

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  General Ivan with General La Pointe and Major Illich