Treason or fatal negligence, the truth is that criticism is increasing against the Russian planning for the invasion, although in public these criticisms focus on the unprofessionalism of the Russian forces and their high command. The Ukrainian attack on the town of Makevka, which was occupied by Russian forces in Donetsk, for which More than half a thousand Russian soldiers died Wounded, the Russian public continues to search for the culprits and mistakes that caused what many see as a new humiliation on the part of Ukraine.
According to the British Ministry of Defense, given the destruction that occurred at the base, “there is a realistic possibility that ammunition was stored near the troop compartments”. The Rybar Telegram account, which has a million followers, called it “criminal naiveté” that the military kept ammunition near bedrooms. As British intelligence also pointed out, the Makiivka episode is another episode of failures like the one that led to the biggest Ukrainian coup since the beginning of the invasion.
The Russian Ministry of Defense asserts that it was the use of mobile phones by the current Russian military that prompted Kyiv to quickly locate hundreds of Russian troops stationed in a building in occupied Donetsk that had been shot by active security systems. rockets.
Last Monday, Ukrainian forces announced that they had killed nearly 400 Russian soldiers (many of them part of the 300,000 partial mobilization decreed in September) who were in the Makievka building. Minutes later, the first official Russian acknowledgment arrived but there were no more than 63 dead. This Wednesday, on the other hand, this figure reached 89 Even the secretary of the Russian Security Council said there were 290.
First silence, then stupor. According to the agencies, it took the Russian security forces about eight hours to notify the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin From the tragedy so as not to spoil the New Year’s celebrations. The catastrophe is of such magnitude that even in Putin’s inner circle, such as the head of RT, Daisy Simonyanlaunching into diatribes of the debacle.
national voices
The head of the Kremlin’s propaganda vanguard at the international level asked for the names of Russian officers to be announced and “the extent of their responsibility” for the massacre of their troops in Makievka (Ukraine). It is time to understand that impunity does not lead to social harmony. Impunity leads to new crimes. And therefore, for the general opposition,” Simonyan wrote on Telegram as well as on Twitter.
Not only her, but the New Year’s Eve attack, the deadliest incident Moscow has admitted since the start of the war, was The straw that broke the camel’s back for Russian public opinion The most aggressive believe that Russia’s campaign in Ukraine was based on the incompetence of the top leadership and a lack of real commitment to achieving the Kremlin’s goals.
Despite the fact that the Russian authorities have managed to crush dissenting voices, the Kremlin’s main critics in recent months have been not the most pacifist but a series of nationalists and opinion makers. Open war supportersMany of them have hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
Semyon PegovA war correspondent who received Putin’s Medal for Courage said on Telegram that pointing fingers at troops using cellphones “seems like an outright attempt to obscure responsibility. There were other ways in which Ukraine could see al Qaeda.”
full packing
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Four Ukrainian missiles hit a temporary Russian barracks at a vocational school in Makievka, eastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Russian military specialists indicated that the mass destruction was the result of the ammunition being stored in the same building as the barracks, despite the fact that the senior officers knew it was within range of Ukrainian missiles.
The demands for greater commitment and a strong hand come from even the war widows’ groups. A little-known association supporting the widows of Russian soldiers has called on President Vladimir Putin to order a massive mobilization of millions of men and the closure of borders to ensure victory in Ukraine.
Thus, Putin finds himself under intense pressure to achieve victory in Ukraine 10 months after the start of the invasion, which he claimed sought to protect the Russians in eastern Ukraine.
