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Dmitry Medvedev, Vice-Chairman of the National Security Council of Russia
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Medvedev: Western tanks will soon be 'rusty scrap metal'
8:31 a.m.:
According to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Western tanks in Ukraine will soon be “rusty scrap metal”.
The chariots would not save the crumbling "artificial state" of Ukraine, commented the Vice Chairman of Russia's National Security Council.
At the meeting in Lviv, which Medvedev believes will soon return to Poland as Lemberg, tanks such as the Leopard, modernized T-72s and even British tanks were "adored."
"But all that iron will definitely turn into rusty scrap metal before long," Medvedev said.
Medvedev was considered a moderate politician during his time as President of Russia.
Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, he has tried to make a name for himself with extreme positions.
SPD in the Bundestag relies on diplomacy
8.20 a.m .:
The SPD parliamentary group relies on diplomatic initiatives to come to a peace agreement in the Ukraine war.
"Because we know that wars are not usually ended on the battlefield," says a draft for a position paper by the largest government faction, which is to be decided at the annual meeting beginning today.
"Even if, for understandable reasons, there is no longer any trust in the current Russian leadership, diplomatic talks must remain possible." That's why Chancellor Olaf Scholz's phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin are right and necessary.
Russia's military leadership swap shows that "not everything is going according to plan."
8.14 a.m .:
Yesterday, Russia’s Defense Minister Shoigu appointed Chief of Staff Valeri Gerasimov as a new commander of the troops in Ukraine, the previous commander Sergey Surovikin is now his deputy.
He only took over the post last October.
There had already been a reshuffle on Tuesday, General Alexander Lapin was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army Troops.
According to political scientist and former Putin speechwriter Abbas Galliamov, all of this shows “everything is possible – but not that everything is going according to plan.”
Surovikin, who is considered a particularly unscrupulous general in Russia, was deployed in early October after a series of Russian defeats.
He was already notorious for attacking civilian targets when he was deployed in Syria in order to weaken his opponents.
After his appointment, attacks on the country's critical infrastructure became an integral part of Russian warfare.
Shoigu also appointed two other deputies, General Oleg Salyukov and Colonel-General Alexei Kim.
Moscow justified the realignment with an "expansion of the scope of the tasks to be solved" and the need for closer cooperation between the individual parts of the army.
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