“Around here I am accused of bringing people down with my news. Apparently, people need good news. But we are where we are. There will be no good news for the foreseeable future. Khersonnor from the front of Lugansk“. Thus he speaks alexander kotsthe war correspondent of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of the most important Russian headers in social networks. The feeling you breathe in Russia not nice, and that strain makes some tongues sharper than usual.
From the Perviy Kanal, the Russian state channel, one of the leading voices, Olga Skabaeva asked a soldier of the “popular militia” of Donetsk why the russian army advances meter to meter“while the Ukrainian goes town to town“. The military’s response: “We must bear in mind that we are not fighting against Ukrainian troops, but against NATO troops. They have gigantic reserves! “. In another interview, an official from the occupied Kherson region reminds the same presenter that when there is a withdrawal it means that she does not go “forward”, avoiding using other euphemisms recurrent in official rhetoric.
“Why do we advance meter by meter when they advance village by village?”
Olga Skabeyeva isn’t happy with the way the war’s going for Russia
Andrei Marochko of the Luhansk “people’s militia” claims it’s because they’re now fighting Nato rather than Ukraine pic.twitter.com/hk6yvbGt5I
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 4, 2022
Tension in the Russian ranks
The information that comes from the front does not convey optimism and significant support from the Russian president, Vladimir Putinrequire changes in direction of the offensive in Ukraine. The Governor of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrovone of the most critical voices, even asked to use the nuclear bomb The last Sunday. The trigger, the loss of the city of Liman. He reasons that, in his opinion, “more drastic measures should be taken, including the declaration of the martial law in border areas and the use of nuclear weapons“. He himself also responded to criticisms made of him by, among others, the Chechen mufti, who criticized him for summoning young people to the front but not going himself. His response, a few weeks later, was to announce that three of his sons, aged 16, 15 and 14, will be called up.
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Another critic has been the leader of the mercenary company WagnerYevgeny Prigozhin. He recently admitted to being the creator of this group. When asked about Kadyrov’s statements, he showed his support. “Ramzan, you are the best,” he affirmed. “You have to send all those barefoot bastards to the front with automatic weapons,” added the man known as “Putin’s cook” because of the catering contracts of one of his companies with the Kremlin. “God save me,” he replied when asked if these words were a criticism of the Ministry of Defense.
Both Kadyrov and Prigozhin have armed men at their service, which are practically small armies that allow these two names of the ruling party to exert pressure in a different way than that of other important men in Putinism. Putin needs your support, according to the independent media outlet Meduza -branded as a foreign agent by the Russian authorities-. The Russian leader would be interested in “alternative military methods” and both Prigozhin and Kadyrov can offer them to the Kremlin.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.