Resistance to Putin?
Russian defense politician calls for an end to "lies" - "Our people are not stupid"
Created: 05/10/2022, 22:58
By: Patrick Mayer
Russian ruler: Vladimir Putin.
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Political setback for Vladimir Putin: A high-ranking politician and ex-commander accuses his own army of lying.
One economic expert even sees the end of the Russian invasion troops.
Munich/Moscow - Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson and Zaporizhia in violation of international law.
But the counter-offensive by the defenders in the Ukraine war apparently cannot slow down his weakened Russian attacking army.
In early October, Ukrainian forces recaptured the strategically important small town of Lyman in the north of the eastern Donetsk region.
Photos documented renewed, apparently heavy Russian losses.
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This is now causing anger in Moscow as well.
A senior Russian parliamentarian has now called on the army to stop "lying" about the military operation in Ukraine.
"The people know it.
Our people are not stupid,” said the Chairman of the Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov on Wednesday (October 5) in the online service Telegram.
"And it sees that we are not prepared to tell him even part of the truth." This could lead to a loss of credibility, the former commander explained.
Among other things, he is quoted
by the
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Difficult for Putin: Kartapolov, who was born in Weimar, Germany, in 1963, is a political and military heavyweight.
Not only does he sit in the Duma, he has also been deputy defense minister since the summer of 2018.
Previously, the Colonel General was commander of the Western Military District.
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Apparently, the Ukrainian successes in the counter-offensive are causing unrest in Moscow.
Just one example: According to the Kleiner Zeitung, a military spokesman for the Kremlin-controlled separatists wrote
in the Telegram news service , according to the
Kleiner Zeitung , that Ukrainian soldiers had established themselves near the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk Oblast.
Conversely, the Ukrainian governor of the same region, Serhiy Gajdaj, told Telegram: "The reconquest of the Luhansk region has (...) begun." Several settlements had been "liberated".
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According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian army is also advancing "quickly and forcefully" in the south of the country.
Villages in the Cherson region are again under Ukrainian control.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, more than 61,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded.
At the end of September, the British secret service estimated the number of Russian soldiers killed at more than 55,000.
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The people know.
Our people are not stupid.
Duma deputy Andrei Kartapolov on Russian losses in Ukraine.
The Russian defense politician Kartapolov is now sounding the alarm.
“The enemy is on our land.
All border villages in the Belgorod region are practically destroyed,” the former military commander wrote on the Telegram channel of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov: “We hear about this from everyone, from governors, from war correspondents.
But the Department of Defense reports remain unchanged.”
Ukraine war: does Russia lack money and equipment for partial mobilization?
What's more, according to an economist, Russia cannot even pay for the announced partial mobilization of around 300,000 reservists.
According to the news portal of
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) , Vladimir Milow claims in an article for the Russian-language
The Inside
r , which appears abroad
: "Putin does not have enough money to continue to finance the war and mobilization." Even a greatly increased budget of the equivalent of around 84 billion euros will therefore not be enough to purchase the necessary equipment for the mobilized soldiers and to pay their wages.
A wrecked, suspected Russian tank in Lyman.
Ukrainian troops recaptured the area in the very north of Donetsk Oblast in early October.
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“It turns out no one is really going to fund or equip this massive, newly recruited 300,000-strong force.
Apart from other aspects, there is only one conclusion: An unpaid and unsupplied army will not be able to fight," says Milow: "In fact, the newly mobilized are literally being sent to certain death - because there is not enough money for their equipment and supplies."
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