#Prigozhin directly attacked Russian President Vladimir #Putin’s presidential administration and insinuated that some officials working there are traitors who want #Russia to lose the war in #Ukraine—one of his boldest attacks against the #Kremlin to date. isw.pub/UkrWar011823 
2/ #Prigozhin weighed in on an ongoing Russian policy debate about banning YouTube and stated that some officials in the #Kremlin oppose banning YouTube because it would undermine their effort to have the US & Russia reestablish relations after #Russia loses the war in #Ukraine.
3/ #Prigozhin criticized the MoD’s new guidelines for Russian troops in #Ukraine that restrict the use of certain personal electronic devices in combat zones and set stricter guidelines for men’s grooming standards on January 18.
4/ #Prigozhin defended Russian line soldiers who do not adhere to grooming standards and claimed that soldiers’ use of smartphones and tablets is necessary for modern warfare.
5/ #Prigozhin stated that "war is the time of the active and courageous, and not of the clean-shaven who turned in phones to the warehouse."
6/ #Prigozhin further criticized out-of-touch Russian MoD officials who must "develop along with the development of modern warfare, learn how to effectively kill the enemy and seize territories," and not "comb everyone under your ridiculous rules, principles, and whims."
7/ #Prigozhin’s statement was the latest of several designed to undermine confidence in the MoD and promote Prigohzin as the face of the Russian "special military operation" in #Ukraine.
8/ #Prigozhin’s comments reflect a cowboy approach to war that is unsuited to the development and maintenance of an effective large-scale and disciplined modern military. isw.pub/UkrWar011823
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