Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Serious passions flared up around #Russian President Vladimir #Putin. The reason was the attack of the #UkraineArmy on the "site" in #Makiivka (the occupied part of the Donetsk region).
1/16
As a result of the attack, a large number of newly mobilized citizens of #Russia died. The President received the info about the "incident" in the report of the General Staff Headquarters eight hours later (at first, they did not dare to overshadow the holiday for #Putin,...
2/16
and then, after drinking the medicine, he fell asleep, and the doctors recommended not to disturb him). In the first report of the military, the number of dead and missing as a result of the strike was 88 people.
3/16
The Security Council's report, which came about an hour after the report from the military, indicated "at least 257 dead and missing". The last figure sharply strained #Putin, and he called a meeting with representatives of the leadership of the security and military blocs.
4/16
The meeting took place on the evening of January 1. During the meeting, General Staff representatives named the number of losses as a result of the strike of 105 people. Patrushev replied that, according to his information, this was at least 290 people.
5/16
#Putin ordered the leadership of the military bloc to provide detailed information about what happened and not hide the real scale of the losses. Yesterday, due to the rising information wave regarding the strike, the President was presented with reports from...
6/16
the Defense Ministry, General Staff, FSB, Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Health, Presidential Administration, Investigative Committee, and Security Council Secretary Patrushev. All reports had different (!!!) figures and different interpretations.
7/16
As a result, #Putin adopted Patrushev's version as a basis, which was close to the versions and loss figures of the FSB, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Health. In Patrushev's report, the "final" losses are 312 dead and missing and 157 wounded.
8/16
A list of names was attached. In the evening, at a meeting of the President with representatives of the leadership of the security and military blocs, which was held via video call, Patrushev accused the leadership of the military bloc of the "tragedy".
9/16
He demanded from #Putin personnel decisions and punishment for the perpetrators. Surovikin's name was named, among others. Patrushev and other representatives of the power bloc have long had claims against the military bloc.
10/16
The media resonance around the "incident" with the military leadership lying to the President, concealing actual losses and problems, gave Patrushev an excuse to openly accuse the military leadership. FSB Director supported Patrushev.
11/16
In fact, the President was given a detailed explanation that it was the military command of the North Military District that completely failed this operation. The main thing is that for the first time, the accusations were made by the security forces in a harsh form,...
12/16
in the presence of the President and, in fact, in the face of the military, and the proposals for reprisals against the guilty were announced almost in the form of an ultimatum.
13/16
#Putin took time to think about the situation but addressed the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff with several threats, using profanities.
The leadership of the security bloc does not want to be involved in the failures at the front.
14/16
They use a convenient excuse to blame the military and, indirectly, the President for everything. Who else is responsible for the military defeat, if not the supreme commander in chief?!
15/16
The leadership of the security bloc can, if desired, disrupt the next stage of mobilization and put an end to #Putin's military adventure. Will they be willing to do it? This is still an open question.
16/16
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Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin held a meeting via video call with representatives of the leadership of the security and military blocs. There were several topics on the agenda. Mobilization was the central one.
1/12
Representatives of the leadership of the military bloc reported that they were ready to carry out a full range of mobilization measures within the framework of both general and partial mobilization.
2/12
After listening to the report of the representative of the Defense Ministry, #Putin confirmed his intention to call up about two million people during 2023 and asked the speaker whether everything was ready to complete the task in full and on time.
3/12
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President Vladimir #Putin celebrated the New Year in a bunker far from Moscow, behind the Ural mountains. Recall that, relatively recently, the President planned to celebrate the New Year at his residence in Sochi. 1/9
However, the strike on the Crimean bridge made #Putin think, and the strike on military airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov regions served as a convincing reason to move New Year's Eve to a bunker at a "safe" distance. 2/9
#Putin celebrated the New Year in the company of his family and a few close friends. Among those invited were: Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai #Patrushev. Patrushev is the only representative of the current regime who was invited to the President's New Year's table. 3/9
Saturday, December 31, 2022, in the morning report to the President of #Russia Vladimir #Putin, the irretrievable military operational loss of manpower of the #RussianArmy is 104,186 people. Data are as of 6 am Moscow time today. 1/4
This figure excludes the data on the losses of #Russian PMCs that also participate in hostilities on the territory of #Ukraine. As of Friday, December 30, they lost 33,902 dead. 2/4
The next update on the losses of PMC fighters should be received on Friday, January 6 and will be updated once a week.
Losses of the #Russian National Guard since the beginning of hostilities amount to 5,941 killed and missing. 3/4
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President #Putin spends New Year's Eve rather routinely. Yesterday, the President took part in the flag-raising ceremony on ships entering the Navy and the launching of the nuclear submarine "Imperator Alexander III".
1/11
"Took part" is, of course, loudly said. He was on a video call. #Putin addressed the audience via video call with a short speech, which he read with some difficulty from the video prompter. After that, the events on the other side of the screen became of little interest...
2/11
to the President, and he began to actively cross out the text on some papers lying on his desk and mark something on the margins. An uninitiated viewer could get the impression that #Putin, at the request of Alina Kabaeva, took up checking the homework of their eldest son.
3/11
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, the visit of #Russian President Vladimir #Putin to the Pskov region was cancelled. This is Putin's second canceled visit to the regions in the past few days. 1/9
The last time the President flatly refused to visit Nizhny Tagil and Yekaterinburg and preferred the company of his former adjutant Alexei Dyumin in Tula. And if last time they preferred not to name the reasons for the change in plans,... 2/9
then yesterday's "weather conditions" prevented visiting the Pskov region. According to #Putin, it was impossible to fly to Pskov with only partly cloudy weather. However, the residence in Valdai can be visited in any weather. This is exactly what the President decided. 3/9
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin, quite formally and without much fanfare, ended an informal CIS summit. The leaders of the participating countries managed to visit the State Russian Museum on Tuesday. 1/8
There, #Putin tried to communicate with colleagues in an informal setting. It did not turn out very well, but he did not despair and continued to entertain the guests until the final. Communication with #Lukashenko has become a game of "deceive me" for Putin. 2/8
Everything that #Putin asked #Lukashenko yesterday received a positive response. In such a simple way, Lukashenko once again "dotted the i", promising full integration, troops, weapons and joint campaigns against the "enemy", and help everywhere and in everything, BUT later. 3/8