- Igor Girkin is a former Russian armed forces commander who led the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
- A short while ago, he has been a critic of the Kremlin’s army method in Ukraine.
- The soldiers are struggling with “the deepest disaster of strategic planning,” Girkin wrote on Telegram.
An ex-Russian armed service commander who frequented the frontline in Ukraine mentioned Russian troopers are in disarray as a consequence of preventing a war with no obvious purpose and poor strategic organizing by the Kremlin.
Igor Girkin, a former Federal Protection Assistance officer and military services chief who led the annexation of Crimea in 2014, has not too long ago been a critic of Russia’s armed forces technique in Ukraine, normally dispensing his sights on Telegram.
In Oct, he declared he was becoming a member of the Russian army to combat in Ukraine and inevitably joined the Donetsk People’s Republic battalion, illegally, in accordance to The Institute for the Analyze of War. With the unit, he was deployed to Svatove in the Luhansk Oblast location.
On Tuesday, Girkin recounted what he noticed at the front on Telegram and stated that Russian troops are fighting with no clear “strategic objectives.”
“Merely put, the troops are combating ‘by inertia,’ not possessing the slightest thought of the supreme strategic ambitions of the latest armed forces campaign,” he wrote, according to Insider’s translation of his Telegram submit.
He continued that the deficiency of a crystal clear intent and the situations for victory or just ending the war is leading to “apathy” among the troopers.
“In most elements of the RF (Russian Federation) Armed Forces, troopers and officers do not comprehend: In the name of what, for what, and with what reasons they are combating. It is a thriller for them: What is the condition for victory or just a situation for ending the war,” Gurkin wrote. “And the authorities of the Russian Federation are not able to reveal this to them, considering the fact that setting a crystal clear objective for the SMO [Special Military Operation] usually means ‘limiting home for maneuver’ — that is, dropping the option to declare the aims of the SMO as achieved at any instant that the Kremlin leaders contemplate practical.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin reported on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine might be a “prolonged process,” quietly acknowledging that the conflict has not long gone according to approach.
His remarks to the presidential Human Rights Council arrived shortly after Ukrainian forces sent drone assaults deep into Russian territory.
Putin reported there was “no sense” in contacting for additional troops, but warned that Russia would “protect ourselves with all the indicates at our disposal.”
- Igor Girkin is a former Russian armed forces commander who led the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
- A short while ago, he has been a critic of the Kremlin’s army method in Ukraine.
- The soldiers are struggling with “the deepest disaster of strategic planning,” Girkin wrote on Telegram.
An ex-Russian armed service commander who frequented the frontline in Ukraine mentioned Russian troopers are in disarray as a consequence of preventing a war with no obvious purpose and poor strategic organizing by the Kremlin.
Igor Girkin, a former Federal Protection Assistance officer and military services chief who led the annexation of Crimea in 2014, has not too long ago been a critic of Russia’s armed forces technique in Ukraine, normally dispensing his sights on Telegram.
In Oct, he declared he was becoming a member of the Russian army to combat in Ukraine and inevitably joined the Donetsk People’s Republic battalion, illegally, in accordance to The Institute for the Analyze of War. With the unit, he was deployed to Svatove in the Luhansk Oblast location.
On Tuesday, Girkin recounted what he noticed at the front on Telegram and stated that Russian troops are fighting with no clear “strategic objectives.”
“Merely put, the troops are combating ‘by inertia,’ not possessing the slightest thought of the supreme strategic ambitions of the latest armed forces campaign,” he wrote, according to Insider’s translation of his Telegram submit.
He continued that the deficiency of a crystal clear intent and the situations for victory or just ending the war is leading to “apathy” among the troopers.
“In most elements of the RF (Russian Federation) Armed Forces, troopers and officers do not comprehend: In the name of what, for what, and with what reasons they are combating. It is a thriller for them: What is the condition for victory or just a situation for ending the war,” Gurkin wrote. “And the authorities of the Russian Federation are not able to reveal this to them, considering the fact that setting a crystal clear objective for the SMO [Special Military Operation] usually means ‘limiting home for maneuver’ — that is, dropping the option to declare the aims of the SMO as achieved at any instant that the Kremlin leaders contemplate practical.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin reported on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine might be a “prolonged process,” quietly acknowledging that the conflict has not long gone according to approach.
His remarks to the presidential Human Rights Council arrived shortly after Ukrainian forces sent drone assaults deep into Russian territory.
Putin reported there was “no sense” in contacting for additional troops, but warned that Russia would “protect ourselves with all the indicates at our disposal.”