Almost three months later Vladimir Putin’s “Special Military Operation” In Ukraine, with domestic prices skyrocketing and economic profits likely to be lost for decades, the Kremlin insists its war will “make life better” for ordinary Russians. often.
“The fact that we live in the conditions of a perfect storm and the moment of truth, it is that storm and moment of truth that will secure and protect our interests, make our lives better. you are better, more comfortable, more stable and safer,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov speak Tuesday.
Speaking at the “New Horizons” educational marathon, Peskov stressed that “our president knows where he is leading our country” and “the whole country supports him”.
The Kremlin, he said, is “confident that we will win and achieve all our goals” – a jarring statement after Russian forces were repeatedly forced to retreat from what they believed. That would be a quick victory in Ukraine, and ordinary Russians were forced to bear the brunt of the economic downturn.
The war, which the Kremlin describes as a heroic crusade against non-existent neo-Nazi leaders in Ukraine, has resulted in hundreds of foreign companies severing ties with Russia, killing some 27,000. Russian military, and according to Ukrainian intelligence, caused Putin’s army to be fired. shaking.
A series of Russian commanders were said to have been punished as Moscow’s military losses piled up, with Lieutenant General Vladislav Yershov, commander of the 6th Combined Armed Forces Group, believed to have stayed out. because of “unprecedented losses in personnel, weapons and military equipment. ”
A total of at least six commanders are believed to have been dismissed for similar reasons, the Main Intelligence Service of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Several of them are believed to have been captured, including Vice Admiral Igor Osipov, who commanded the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. Moscowwhich was famously sunk by Ukraine’s Neptune anti-ship missile (although the Kremlin tried to claim a random fire on board was the cause).
And according to Western intelligence officials cited by Guardians on Monday, it was Putin who was at the forefront of military decision-making in many of the country’s most humiliating defeats.
“We assume that Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision-making at a level that we would normally expect to be handled by a colonel or a brigade,” a military source was quoted as saying by the news agency. guide.
The Russian leader is even said to have been involved in mapping out the movements for the troops in the Donbas, where the entire Russian battalion wiped out last week when they repeatedly tried to cross a strategic river in the Luhansk region.
Putin’s role in military strategy clearly hasn’t stopped his own military from rambling about his war. Ukraine’s Security Service has regularly released recordings of what it says are intercepted communications between the Russian military and, latest, a purported soldier can be heard mocking the idea of the army. Russia is “great power. ”
“We are damn sitting ducks,” he said, explaining that the Russian military has been forced to rely on family members back home and “sponsors” like farmers to send equipment to surname.
“This goddamn army… did this particular operation,” he said, calling it “damn politics.”
