Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! On Friday, March 10, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation via video call. 1/7
After the main part of the meeting, the president continued to communicate in a narrow format. It should be noted that the truce and the warming of relations between the President and Secretary of the Security Council of the #Russian Federation Nikolai #Patrushev,... 2/7
at least in communication, ceased to be formal and returned to a confidential form. Continuing Friday's closed-format meeting, the president raised several questions. #Putin listened to reports on the state of affairs at the front and traditionally remained dissatisfied. 3/7
A huge number of accumulated problems require quick and effective solutions, which simply do not exist. The military leadership reports on super-efforts in the bogged-down offensive but assures that at this stage, it is incredibly difficult to... 4/7
resist the Armed Forces of #Ukraine, which are provided with modern NATO weapons, especially in the current phase, with an acute shortage of their own weapons. Despite the president's demand in the form of an ultimatum, the military leadership shrug their shoulders and... 5/7
lower their eyes, trying to justify themselves as negligent schoolchildren. Abuses and #Putin's threats to the military leadership already seem to have no effect. What they used to whisper and grumble about in the General Staff half a year ago is now... 6/7
being said practically openly - there is no way out. A new wave of mobilization, without a sufficient amount of weapons, is useless and will only lead to heavy losses without results. So without deciding anything, we moved on to the topic of PMCs and Yevgeny Prigozhin. 7/7
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#Putin's meeting with #Chinese leader #XiJinping could take place in a few days. Possible dates are from March 18 to March 23. Putin said that on any of these days, he would be ready to receive the Chinese leader. 1/5
On the eve of the visit, the #Chinese side is trying to probe what concessions the #Russian president is ready to make in the conflict with #Ukraine in order to promote Comrade Xi's peace initiatives. #Putin does not want to make any promises and replied that... 2/5
he was ready to discuss such issues only during a personal meeting with the #Chinese leader. It is not yet clear what state #Putin will be in if #XiJinping's visit takes place within the next two weeks and whether Putin will be able to fully hold a meeting and... 3/5
Yesterday, the #Kremlin information resources showed a meeting of two "absolutely healthy" people: #Russian President Vladimir #Putin and the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan #Kadyrov. The meeting was supposed to demonstrate... 1/6
the excellent health of the participants and their "strong handshake". It didn't work out very well. Given urgent therapy, #Putin does not feel well. Recently, the pain in his stomach has intensified again. It is not always possible to stop it completely. 2/6
In the footage of the meeting with the head of Chechnya, #Putin, sitting in an armchair, twisted from pain for a moment and convulsively grabbed the table with his hand. Note that this is on the official #Kremlin recording, where the best and most successful shots are used. 3/6
Nikolai #Patrushev made a short presentation and suggested that at the current pace, there would be nothing left of the #Wagner PMC in a month and a half or two months. The Secretary of the Security Council also shared his assumptions about how #Prigozhin... 1/4
would act in this state of affairs and what threats could come from him. Among other things, according to #Patrushev, #Prigozhin may try to unite the former and remaining active #PMCWagner fighters under a far-fetched pretext and use the resources at his disposal to... 2/4
organize, arm and send them to #Russian territory in order to seize power in the regions bordering Ukraine with possible advancement inland. The Secretary of the Security Council said that he had already ordered control of the contacts and movements of former PMC fighters. 3/4
#Putin was very annoyed by the news that the #Georgian authorities agreed with the demands of the protesters and removed the bill on "foreign agents" from the agenda. The President of #Russia considers even dialogue with the opposition to be a weakness. 1/4
And making concessions to protesters at street rallies with active dynamics and resistance to the forces of "law and order" is generally beyond #Putin's understanding. The president has been blaming the #Georgian authorities since morning and gave orders to... 2/4
recommend to "those bastards" (#Georgian leadership) not to release those detained at the protests, but on the contrary, to intensify the persecution, including criminal ones. In the afternoon, having learned that the Georgian authorities not only did not... 3/4
Yesterday evening, #Putin held an urgent meeting via video call with representatives of the leadership of the security and military blocs. The reason for the urgent meeting was the message in the report to the president that, supposedly,... 1/7
#Israel's military operation against #Iran would begin in the near future. #Putin has recently provided "invaluable" assistance to Iran in promoting the development of a "nuclear program", thanks to which Iran has come close to obtaining nuclear weapons. 2/7
In return, #Russia received weapons, not in the volumes that #Putin expected, but still, it was a significant help in the war against #Ukraine. Now, given a possible #Israeli strike, #Iran's "nuclear program" and Tehran's very possibility of helping Russia with arms and... 3/7
#Putin has a different situation with #Chinese leader #XiJinping. Putin sends messages to the Chinese leadership: "either you, dear Xi Jinping and comrades, give us weapons to win the war, or we have no choice but to use nuclear weapons in the conflict with #Ukraine." 1/6
#China does not want a nuclear conflict in #Europe at all, but they cannot really help #Russia either. Also, they cannot oppose Russia, risking losing a huge and weakening neighbor from their sphere of interests, and, in the very near future, from their sphere of influence. 2/6
#XiJinping is trying to build a complex system of keeping #Chinese positions in contact with the West and, at the same time, get #Russia, like an overripe apple that has fallen to his feet, without allowing a nuclear conflict. 3/6