In the near future, Putin plans to visit #Turkey. Active preparations for the visit are now underway. A meeting with Erdogan for Putin should solve several issues at once. The main topic should be Erdogan's persuasion to... 1/7
influence #Zelensky to move to negotiations "on adequate conditions". The negotiations should become a prologue to the freezing of the conflict. Any "Minsk-3" or "Istanbul-1" will suit the #Russian president as long as... 2/7
a truce is established and the #Russian troops are allowed to "come to their senses" and fill in the gaps in forces and means for further military operations. There are a number of secondary issues that #Putin is ready to discuss and propose solutions to #Erdogan, such as... 3/7
pressuring Armenia and easing tensions on the border between Azerbaijan and Iran. But #Putin needs to "freeze" the front in #Ukraine in the first place. For this, he is ready to risk and leave #Russia under #Erdogan's guarantees after the issuance of an ICC arrest warrant. 4/7
Having not received the long-awaited military and political assistance from #China, #Turkey is the last hope for #Putin. There are simply no other intermediaries of such a level that the #Russian president could trust. 5/7
Despite the assurances of the military leadership about the ability of #RussianArmy to hold the occupied territories, #Putin prefers not to bring to the test both the ability of Russian troops to hold positions during the offensive of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine and... 6/7
the promise of the military leadership, which, in the opinion of the president himself, is "worthless". 7/7
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A nervous environment and constant tension do not benefit most people, and #Russian President Vladimir #Putin is no exception. The president's family and health, these two pillars on which the basis for successful professional activity is based, are literally collapsing. 1/6
#Putin once again quarreled with his cohabitant and mother of his younger children, Alina Kabaeva. We have already talked about the fact that the president's conflict with Kabaeva after a journalistic investigation into Putin and his family, including a residence in Valdai. 2/6
Then the president made claims to Alina that it was her friends who knew too much and chatted everywhere, endangering the family idyll and comfort, securely hidden from the eyes of the public. #Putin then banned not only... 3/6
Experts at the Security Council predict a catastrophe
#Russian President Vladimir #Putin is clearly being prepared for something. Not yet for a transfer to the International Criminal Court, but who knows. Yesterday, the president was literally stunned by two reports.
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Firstly, experts at the Security Council of the Russian Federation "delighted" #Putin with a new forecast. (The assessment of the situation changed after #XiJinping's visit to #Russia, and experts hastened to acquaint the president with it).
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Recall that in the first half of 2022, they warned #Putin about a temporary loss of control over some areas of the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions. And this is exactly what happened. According to their estimates, if current trends continue, #Russia would...
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#Russian President Vladimir #Putin discussed the prospects for placing tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of the Republic of Belarus with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai #Patrushev. Patrushev expressed doubts about... 1/4
the effectiveness of this decision. In his opinion, #Lukashenko, in the event of even a minor political crisis in #Russia, will hasten to #Europe or the #UnitedStates to "exchange" tactical nuclear weapons located in Belarus against the lifting of sanctions. 2/4
As #Patrushev put it, "Lukashenko will arrange a month of voluntary surrender of nuclear weapons." #Putin did not change his opinion and considered such a move with the placement of nuclear weapons on the territory of the Republic of #Belarus a "good" response to... 3/4
During a meeting with representatives of the leadership of the security bloc, the state of affairs in the country was discussed. Among other things, they condemned the recording of a conversation between producer Iosif Prigozhin and a businessman and... 1/6
ex-political figure Akhmedov, which "leaked" into the information space. The recording was launched with the light hand of the FSB, and the operation itself pursued several goals. Recently, Iosif Prigozhin spoke almost openly in support of the singer Valery Meladze, who,... 2/6
according to the FSB, supports the "actions of the Kyiv regime" and against whom sanctions were being prepared by the #Russian authorities. Iosif Prigogine, allegedly, began to fuss and involve his connections to help Meladze. 3/6
Over the weekend, President of #Russia Putin held several meetings via video call. At a meeting with the leadership of the military, they discussed current events at the front. Constant criticism and threats to the military leadership... 1/4
from the president had their effect, and the military leadership promised to capture #Avdiivka and #Bakhmut in the next two weeks, thus putting an end to the "big" winter-spring offensive. However, the military leadership did not provide detailed information on how... 2/4
it was going to fulfill this promise. According to experts at the Security Council of #Russia, who almost always give clear and well-founded analytical forecasts, it will be very problematic to capture these settlements within the specified period. 3/4
Yesterday, #Russian President #Putin held a meeting with representatives of the leadership of the military bloc. The main topic of the meeting was the state of affairs at the front. The military leadership, with a certain degree of optimism, reported to the president on... 1/7
insignificant advances in two directions, but #Putin rebuked the speaker and succumbed to harsh criticism of the "ant achievements" of the #RussianArmy. According to the president, he was repeatedly given... 2/7
promises and indicated specific deadlines for achieving the tasks set, and almost never the promises were fulfilled. The next speaker reported on the impressive losses among former prisoners and now PMC fighters. 3/7