Thread by @generalsvr_en

On Friday, September 2, #Russian President #Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council. After the main part of the meeting, Putin continued to discuss several topics in a narrow circle.
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At the beginning of the closed part of the meeting, Security Council Secretary #Patrushev reported on the situation at the front, focusing on the precarious position of #RussianArmy in several sectors of the front.
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Also, #Patrushev provided alternative data on the losses of Western weapons that were provided to #Ukraine. These data differed significantly downwards from the data of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense of the #Russian Federation.
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For example, according to #Patrushev, the number of notorious American #HIMARS destroyed is only two, which is many times different from the data of the leadership of the military bloc. #Putin listened carefully to the report and asked Patrushev several questions.
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In particular, #Putin asked why there is such a difference between the data on the losses of troops and weapons of the #UkrainianArmy in the report of Patrushev and that of the General Staff.
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To that, the Secretary of the Security Council suggested forwarding the question to the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, pointing out that he has no doubts about his data.
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Further, the discussion turned to the topic of personnel purges and appointments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Here everything is according to plan, and #Putin expressed the hope that everything would go smoothly. He reservedly praised the participants in the process.
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Another topic for discussion was #Kazakhstan and the recent reformist statements of the President of Kazakhstan, Tokayev. #Putin expressed strong dissatisfaction with Tokayev's actions that were not coordinated with him.
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#Putin allowed himself much more than the usual curses towards the President of #Kazakhstan. He complained that he "did not resolve the issue with Kazakhstan" this winter and did not take advantage of the crisis in which Tokayev found himself in.
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At the same time, #Putin expressed doubts about the advisability of opening a second front in #Kazakhstan, preferring #Georgia. According to him, "it is possible to annex Georgia and #Armenia in one go" by finding a compromise with #Erdogan on this region.
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At the end of the meeting, they turned to pressing internal issues, where, among other things, #Putin was told that top propagandists had taken on the role of the main moral censors and were hindering the work of bringing back the creative intelligentsia to #Russia.
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Most of all went to Vladimir Solovyov, to whom the president said displeasedly: "tell the dickhead to close his mouth or to wait until it will be closed". That's what they decided on.
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