We are talking about Sergei Shoigu. He is not fired from his position precisely so that there is someone to blame all the problems on.
Internal criticism of “partial mobilization” is intensifying in Russia . It seems that the Kremlin has found a scapegoat for the failures of the Russian army at the front – it is Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. This is stated in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) dated October 5.
The institute's analysts noted that Vladimir Putin publicly blames Shoigu for the mobilization problems. For example, on October 5, Putin postponed the mobilization for all students and, commenting on this to the Russian mass media, said that “the Ministry of Defense did not make timely changes to the legislative framework regarding the list of non-mobilized persons, corrections must be made.”
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“This direct criticism of the Ministry of Defense also includes an implicit criticism of Shoigu, whom Putin appears to hold responsible for the failure of Putin's invasion of Ukraine,” the ISW report said. – Putin will most likely delay Shoigu's release as long as he can in order to continue to blame him for constant military failures and win the support of other factions. Shoigu's replacement will have to take responsibility for the failures that will occur after the start of his tenure.”
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We will remind, after a series of previous failures the Russian far-right has already criticized the military leadership, especially Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is not an ethnic Russian and is therefore an easy target for ultra-nationalists. But last week, when Russia lost the important city of Lyman in the Donetsk region, as well as another part of occupied Ukraine, which they already recognized as part of their territory, the accusations reached a new level. This is written by Leonid Bershidskyi, columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.
See special topic: The Telegraph: The US believes that Ukraine is capable of liberating Crimea Earlier in Washington, such a prospect was considered unrealistic, as the Russian army was considered too strong, so that Ukraine could overcome it on the peninsula. The invaders have started a partial mobilization in the Luhansk region – Haidai Summonses are distributed to almost everyone. Russia deported more than 1,600,000 Ukrainians – Zelenskyi Many of them had their documents taken away, some went through the terrible filtration camps of the occupiers, where they were mocked and intimidated , he said. The second strike this morning on Zaporozhye, there is a hit The USA believes that Ukraine can return Crimea — Telegraph The occupiers no longer have the ability or the willpower to defend their key positions on the battlefield.
