EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russia’s finance ministry is reportedly asking for supplementary money to pay off families of dead soldiers.
Following a successful counter-offensive by Ukraine in Kharkiv, Russian state-tv started extensively discussing the nation’s losses in a uncommon admission of Moscow’s failures.
The Institute for the Examine of Struggle (ISW) assessed in its September 13 marketing campaign report that the “Kremlin’s acknowledgment of the defeat is a part of an effort to mitigate and deflect criticism for such a devastating failure away from Russian President Vladimir Putin and onto the Russian Ministry of Defence and the uniformed army command.”
The ISW added that the blame Kremlin sources are shifting away from Putin is being directed at “underinformed army advisors inside Putin’s circle.”
David Marples, a professor of Russian and East European historical past on the College of Alberta in Canada, instructed Newsweek that Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was appointed by Putin himself in 2012, regardless of having no army background, is “a handy scapegoat” for Russian conflict losses.
Professor Marples added that he believes Shoigu “has been not noted of army planning for a while now.”
An intelligence replace from the British Ministry of Defence late final month cited unbiased Russian reporting that Mr Shoigu was being “sidelined throughout the Russian management, with operational commanders briefing President Putin immediately on the course of the conflict.”
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