[ロンドン ６日 ロイター] – More than seven months after the start of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, no noticeable results were achieved and on the 6th, a senior official from Kherson Oblast in eastern Ukraine sent by Russia is a longtime ally of the president Putin. He criticized Defense Minister Shoigu. In recent days, there has been growing criticism within the regime for allowing Ukrainian forces to advance into the east.
In a four-minute video message, Deputy Minister Kirill Stremousov, who was sent to the unilaterally “annexed” Kherson region of Russia in eastern Ukraine, said that Russian “military officers and ministers” do not understand the problems that occur in first line. people say that if I had been the defense minister who allowed this situation, I would have taken my own life as an officer, “he said, criticizing Shoigu.
While criticizing the “incompetent military leaders”, Stremousov praised the soldiers who are risking their lives. “The defense ministry is not just made up of ministers, generals, corrupt looters and other assholes of all kinds. All the heroes who give their lives to defend Russia are part of it,” he said.
As the Ukrainian army accelerates its reverse offensive to the east and south and the Russian army is forced to retreat, the head of the Chechen Republic in southern Russia, who supports Putin, recently announced that he will impose martial law on the border area and deploy low-yield nuclear weapons. We should take uncompromising measures to use. “Putin’s ally, Evgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, said the” bastard “military commanders” should be sent barefoot to the front with automatic rifles. “
It is currently unclear whether the series of criticisms have been coordinated. But as the invasion of Ukraine enters a critical phase, Putin faces a dilemma: to admit the mistakes of the military at the expense of his longtime ally Shoigu, or to let Shoigu remain in office and admit his own. mistakes.
Shoigu was appointed defense minister in 2012. The defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
