Ukraine fiasco for Russia?

Putin's advisors "all nervous" - experts analyze relentlessly

Created: 03/25/2022, 14:22

By: Patrick Mayer

According to various reports, Russia suffers high losses in the Ukraine war.

Putin's troops are making little progress.

Analysts assess the situation in Moscow.

Munich/Kyiv/New York – Has Moscow's ruler Vladimir Putin got completely bogged down militarily in the Russia-Ukraine War*?

In a situation report, the transatlantic defense alliance NATO estimated the losses among Russian troops at 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers since the attack on the western neighbor.

According to estimates, between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers were killed, and many more were wounded and disabled.

Completely destroyed: A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of a burned-out military vehicle in Irpin, which the AFP news agency describes as a burned-out Russian wheeled tank (archive photo).

© Sergei Supinsky/AFP

Russia-Ukraine War: Alleged high casualties among Vladimir Putin's troops

Alleged reports that are supposed to describe catastrophic conditions in the Russian army are becoming public again and again.

There is talk of immense supply problems.

From tanks without gas.

Or about soldiers who have to sleep in trenches in the cold because everything is missing.

The representations cannot be independently verified.

The

has now published an article in which various military analysts describe alleged "rifts in the Russian leadership".

Advisers to Russian President Putin are "nervous" because Russia's war with Ukraine has turned into a debacle, explains Andrey Soldierov, author and investigative journalist on Russia's military and security services, in an interview with the US newspaper.

Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow and Vladimir Putin expected a quick victory

For context: Andrei Alexeyevich Soldierov used to write for the independent Russian daily newspaper

, founded by a Dutch media company.

Among other things, he has already commented on the political situation in Moscow and the development of the former secret service KGB into the successor organization FSB for the British BBC.

Soldierow also founded the website

with his wife, and the renowned

uses his expertise as a secret service expert for research.

"It looks like everyone is nervous," says the author of the

after a month of war , Russia's Vladimir Putin* expected a quick defeat of the Ukrainian capital Kiev (around 2.8 million inhabitants).

Recently, however, the Ukrainian armed forces stated that they had even repelled the Russian invasion troops northwest of the metropolis in the small towns of Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel.

This cannot be verified independently.

Another military analyst is Pavel Luzin, a political scientist from the

.

He is considered an expert on Russian security policy, as described by the US Foreign Policy Research Institute.

"We can definitely say that nothing is going according to plan," Luzin tells the

. "It has been decades since the Soviet and Russian armies have suffered such great casualties in such a short period of time."

What he means by that: According to American estimates, more than 14,400 Soviet soldiers were killed during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989.

What can also be observed at the moment is that more and more of Putin's military advisers are apparently withdrawing - or they will be withdrawn from the Kremlin.

According to reports, Roman Gavrilov, the head of the Russian National Guard, has lost his job.

The Russian newspaper

reported that he had resigned.

Russia-Ukraine war: Adviser to Vladimir Putin allegedly withdrew in protest

recently reported

that Anatoly Chubais left Russia in protest.

He was considered Putin's adviser, and both have known each other since Putin's time in Saint Petersburg in the 1990s.

Is Russia experiencing a fiasco in the Ukraine conflict*?

The ruthless analyzes from the West are increasing.

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